Focuses primarily on contemporary music. Includes projects and a directory of links. [English/German]

From The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Information, links to online publications and guides to the collections.

Collection of commercial and field recordings of ethnic and folk musics, with an emphasis on the musics of Asia and the Middle East. Includes general information on the collection, a collection newsletter, and browsable collection databases.

General information about the Indiana University Archives, including listings of journal contents and a searchable archive database.

A series of primary source indexes covering the early history of the United States. Entries searchable and sorted by text (titles, first lines, recitatives, chorus and burden), by music incipits (represented in scale degrees, stressed notes and interval sequences), with additional indexes of names and theater works. A project of the Colonial Music Institute.

The collection at the British Library Includes recordings variously described as traditional, folk or 'world' music. Includes a discography of their published CDs, and a searchable catalog of published and unpublished recordings.

International Library of African Music with over 40,000 recordings. Includes a searchable index, as well as sound samples of African instruments.

The British Library National Sound Archive contains lists of world music recordings with RealAudio samples, as well as links to other world music archives in the UK.

The Smithsonian archives house the Moses and Frances Asch collection, consisting of the entirety of Folkways Records, and the Rinzler Archives, consisting of the written, audio, and visual records of projects and exhibits sponsored by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Contains general collections and grant information

Digital downloads of music and sound from around the world, including educational content. Includes free previews of content from the Smithsonian/Folkways world music catalogue.

Archival material held by the UNC-Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library. The Southern Folklife Collection documents the region's expressive traditions, especially in music.

The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip is a multi-format ethnographic field collection including nearly 700 sound recordings (102 of which are performed in Spanish), fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502 mile trip through the Southern United States collecting folksongs. Includes a virtual journal of the trip, with text, pictures and sound.

A guide to Indiana University's research center archives.

The collection Includes sound recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-western classical music. Includes a selected list of current collections.

Basic information on the collection and staff.