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Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
Contents

• Organizations,Institutions, Archives, Research Centers
• Bibliography, Periodicals & Online Publications
• Recordings
• Anglo-American Folksong
• Native American Music
• Music of Asia
• Music of the Middle East
• Music of Eastern Europe, Russia
• Music of Europe
• Music of Africa
• Music of the Caribbean, Latin and South America
• Music of Oceania
• Dance

Organizations,Institutions, Archives, Research Centers

• Society for Ethnomusicology
• African Music Archive, Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Mainz
• Alan Lomax Collection
• American Folklife Center Home Page Lib. of Congress
  • American Folklife Center: Ethnographic Studies
  • American Folklife Center - Collections Available Online
• Archives of African American Music & Culture
• Archive of Maori and Pacific Music at the University of Auckland
• Archive of World Music Harvard University
• Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie ADEM
• Australian Institute of Eastern music
• British Forum for Ethnomusicology
• British Library Sound Archive -World and Traditional Music Section
• Boston College: John J. Burns Library-Irish Music Center
• Center for Music of the Americas Florida State University
• Center for Popular Music Middle Tennessee State University
• Centro de Etnomusicología Andina Archivo de Música Tradicional Andina (Peru)
• Ethnomusikolgie-Volksmusik: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg Max Peter Baumann
• European Seminar in Ethnomusicology
• The Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology (Suomen etnomusikologinen seura ry)
  
• The Global Music Archive Vanderbilt University
• Hardanger Fiddle Association of America
• Institut du Monde Arab
• International Council for Traditional Music
• International Native American Flute Association
• Irish Traditional Music Archive
• The Irish World Music Center
• Jewish Music Research Center
• Latin America Music Center Indiana Univ.
• Latvian Ethnomusicology
• Maailman musiikin keskus (Global Music Centre) in English!
• Museum of Popular Instruments Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, Hellenic Ministry of Culture
• New York Folklore Society
• The Open University Musics and Cultures Research Group
• Northwest Folklife Homepage
• School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ. of London, Dept. of Music
• Singhini Research Centre
• Sociedad de Ethnomusicologia
• Société française d'ethnomusicologiey
• Society for Asian Music
• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
  • Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
• Svenskt visarkiv Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research
• Ethnomusicology at SIL International (Summer Institute of Linguistics)
• UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
• University of Washington Ethnomusicology Home Page
  • Ethnomusicology Recording Archives
  • Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection
• University of Cyprus Ethnomusicology Research Program
• World Music Institute

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Bibliography, Periodicals & Online Publications

• Current Bibliography, Discography, Filmography, and Videography from SEM
• Alan Lomax Archive - Catalog
• Asian Music
• British Library Sound Archive "International Music Connection" FULL TEXT
• British Journal of Ethnomusicology contents
• Cahiers des musiques traditionnelles
• Descarga Journal FULL TEXT
• Dirty Linen The Magazine Of Folk, Electric Folk, Traditional and World Music
• Ethnomusicology
• Ethnomusicology Online formerly EF/hm FULL TEXT
• Ethnomusicology Research Digest ERD
• European Meetings in Ethnomusicology Romanian Society for Ethnomusicology
• FolkLib Index: A Library of Folk Music Links
• Folk Music
• Melomag: creative art from around the world
• Music & Anthropology FULL TEXT
• The Music Magazine India
• Musical TraditionsThe Magazine for Traditional Music throughout the world. FULL TEXT
• NTAMA-Journal of African Music and Popular Culture
• Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology
• portail ethnomusicologie
• RPM Online: The Review of Popular Music International Association for the Study of Popular Music
• RootsWorld an online magazine of world music Reviews, interviews, audio and articles covering the world's creative and folk music.
• A Selection of Ethnic Music Styles from the collections of the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Smithsonian Global Sound
• Trans: transcultural music review = revista transcultural de música
• Univ. of Chicago Press: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
• Verlag Ernst Kuhn ethno antiquariat
• The World of Music bibliography: vols. 19-41, 1977-1999(3)
• World Music Central

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Recordings & Videos

• The Listening Post Robert Garfias. "mini-reviews" and recommended listening not confined to ethnomusicological recordings
• Robert Garfias - Films and Field Recordings
• Current Bibliography, Discography, Filmography, and Videography from SEM
• Early Sound Recordings in the Field Steven E. Schoenherr

Labels and Distributers

• Record Company Addresses links from Dirty Linen
• AIMP (Archives internationales de musique populaire) Collection of Geneva Ethnographic Museum from ADEM
• Afropop Worldwide
• Allegro Imports World music catalog
• Alula records
• Ara-music: Arabic Music Cds
• ARC Music
• Arhoolie
• Ateliers d'ethnomusicologie CD, disques
• Bear Family
• beatofindia.com
• barraka el farnatshi recordings from Morroco
• Bishop Museum
• calabash music
• Canyon Records
• celestial harmonies
• Center Records
• Descarga Latin recordings, books
• Deep Down Productions
• Ellipsis Arts
• eworldsrecords
• Felmay Italy
• Globestyle
• HumanSongs.com Folkloric and WorldBeat Music
• Indian House
• Kereshmeh Records Persian music
• Khazana: India Arts Online- Music Recordings & Instruments
• American Folklife Center. Library of Congress
• Lyrichord World Music
• Music of Mongolia - discography
• Maison des Cultures du Monde
• Multicultural Media Home Page
• Mhumbi records
• Mundo Etnico Anthology of Pacific Music
• Naxos World
• Oliver Sudden Productions
• Onzou Records West Africa
• Putumayo World Music
• RomSky.com music from romania
• Rootsworld
• Rounder Records Catalogue By label from the Rounder Record Group
• Music of Siberia - discography
• Smithsonian/Folkways
• Smithsonian Global Sound
• Sonic Safari Music
• Sublimefrequencies
• SWP Records Hugh Tracey, ILAM, Compact Discs
• Temple Records
• Topic
• Tradisom Portugal
• Traditional Crossroads
• Music of Tuva - discography
• UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World
• Village Pulse
• World Music Store/Multicultural Media
• World Music Central

Sites by Geographical Region

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British/Irish/American Folk Music

• English folk and traditional music on th Internet
• Richard Robinson's Tunebook (Anglo tunes in gif format)
• English folk and traditional music on the Internet A guide to resources
• Folk stuff
• folkmusic.org
• Ceolas celtic music archive
• Celtic Lyrics
• Ancient Music of Ireland
• Music Making in Belfast
• Turlough O'Carolan: Carolan Tunes
• Irish World Music Centre
• The Celtic World from RootsWorld
Folk Music Site Search
• The Virtual Tunebook
• Henrik Norbeck's Tune Index
• An ABC Library of Morris Tunes
• Eric Foxley's Music Database
• Child Ballads
• Sacred Harp Singing
• Folk Music, An Index to Recorded Resources
• The Folk Music Webring
• California Gold from L.C. American Memory Project
• America Music Resources on the Web Eric Charry
• The Phonograph Turntable and Performance Practice in Hip Hop Music Miles White

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Native American

• Native American Music
• The Infography about Native American Music
• Great Lakes Powwows Virtual Tour
• Gathering of Nations Pow wow
• Center Records (Lakota)
• Native American Sites
• Ohwejagehka Iriquois earth songs
• Inuit Throat Singing
• Omaha Indian Music
• American Indian Radio
• WOJB Ojibway

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Asia

• The Asian Free Reed Robert Garfias
• The Bamboo Origins of Far Eastern Bridged Zithers Robert Garfias
• Some Thoughts on the Origins of Gagaku Robert Garfias
• Hula Halau in Japan: A Case Study of Hula Schools in Tokyo Yoko Kurokawa
• Music and Dance of the Bukidnon-s of Mindanao Hans Brandeis
• A Kiosk of Information Related to Okinawan Music Robert Garfias
• Throat Singing
  • Discography of recorded Tuvan, Mongolian, and Siberian Music
  • Music of Tuva
• Australian Institue of Eastern Music
  • on blending North & South Indian Vocal Styles Sumathi Krishan (Newsletter, Oct. 1995)
  • on Raga John Napier (Newsletter, Oct. 1995)
  • A Short Guide to Indian Music (Newsletter, April 1997)
  • The Violin in Indian Music John Napier (Newsletter, May 1997)
  • Understanding an Indian music Performance (Newsletter, June 1997)
  • Techniques of Classical Indian Dance: Bharatanatyam Malathi Nagarajan (Newsletter, Aug. 1997)
• Professional Weeping: Music, Affect, and Hierarchy in a South Indian Folk Performance Art Paul D. Greene
• Koshur Mausiquee Kashmiri music
• Foundation of India Art
• Sarod.com Amjad Ali Khan
• On Musicians' Speech About Music: Musico-Linguistic Discourse of Tabla Players Lowell Lybarger
• Shakuhachi Main Menu
• Sound of Bamboo
• John Thompson and the Guqin Silk String Zither
• Cambodian Performing Arts Sam-Ang Sam
• Bhangra: Punjabi Beats Go Global
• The Music Magazine India
• Beatofindia.com
• Music from Korea
• Chinese Music by Organized Groups in Victoria between 1949-1995 Wang Zheng Ting
• Huê and Tài Tú Music of Viet Nam: The Concept of Music and Social Organisation of Musicians Lê Tuân Hùng
• Quan H? Singing in Ritual-festivals in B?c Ninh Region (Vietnam) Lê Ng?c Chân
• Vietnamse Music in Australia: A General Survey Le Tuan Hung
• The Infography about Music -- Laos
• The Infography about Music -- Thailand
• The Infography about Music -- Vietnam

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Middle East and North Africa

• Music, Myth, and History in the Mediterranean: Diaspora and the Return to Modernity Philp Bohlman
• Links to Middle Eastern Music Sites
• Middle East Studies Association
• Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
• Made in America: Historical and Contemporary Recordings of Middle Eastern Music in the United States Anne K. Rasmussen, The College of William and Mary
• Listening to Umm Kulthûm Virginia Danielson, Harvard University
• Recent Recordings of Traditional Music from the Arabian Gulf and Saudi Arabia Kay Hardy Campbell, Boston, MA
• Arab Music - Part One Ali Jihad Racy and Jack Logan
• Arab Music - Part Two Ali Jihad Racy and Jack Logan
• Arab Music - Part Three Ali Jihad Racy and Jack Logan
• Arab Music - Part Four Ali Jihad Racy and Jack Logan
• TURATH.org
• Introduction to Sufi Music and Ritual in Turkey Irene Markoff, York University
• Music of Algeria: Selected Recordings Dwight Reynolds, University of California-Santa Barbara
• New Recordings of Turkish Classical Music Walter Feldman, University of Pennsylvania
• Introduction to Traditional Iranian Dastgâh Music Margaret Caton, Los Angeles CA
• The Qur'ân Recited Mahmoud Ayoub, Temple University
• Solo Improvisation (Taqâsîm) in Arab Music Scott L. Marcus, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Discography of Arab and Turkish Classical Music
• Iranian/Persian Music
• Persian Classical Music
• The Kurdish Music articles on the Kurdish Music are written by Kendal NEZAN
• The Ethnic Musical Instruments Co.
• A Master Percussionist: Vince Delgado
• Egyptian Music-Seven Millennia of Performance
• Playing a Middle Eastern Percussion Instrument
• Lebanon2000.com
• Music, song, and dance from Al Mashriq
• Turkish music.org
• Setar
• Ancient Sound of Anatolia:the Baglama
• Different tunes for Dastgah e Mahoor
• Iranian Classical Music
• Afgani rebab, east/west fusion
• Music in the Afghan North 1967-1972 Mark Slobin
• Saramusik: Histoire musique arabe et orientale
  

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Eastern Europe and Russia

• The Infography about Music -- East-European Folk
• The Hungarian Music Page
• The Romanian Doina Robert Garfias
• Romica Puceanu: Romanian Gypsy Singer Robert Garfias
• They Call Themselves Roma Michal Shapiro from Rootsworld
• Lost Trails
• Albamuzika Albania
• The role of movement in Russian panpipe playing Olga Velitchkina
• German and Klavdia Khatylaev : The art of magnificent duet from the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
• The Infography about Music -- Bulgarian

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Europe

• Finland from Rootsworld
• Digital archive of Finnish Folk Tunes
• Cultural dynamics and minority identity in music: An Ethnomusicological Case Study of the Swedish-Finnish Popular Music in the Dancehalls of Gothenburg Pekka Suutari
• Swedish Traditional Music
• Flamenco Page
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• The Launeddas Sardinia
• Musique traditionnelle de France
• Joik and the theory of knowledge (Saami chant) Ánde Somby
• The Pontic Music Home Page
• Kavals and Dzamares: End-blown Flutes of Greece and Macedonia Anthony Tammer
• Oud Greece
  Musicians of the Mediterranean (from EOL)
  • Music, Myth, and History in the Mediterranean: Diaspora and the Return to Modernity Philp Bohlman
  • Repertories and identities of a musician from Crete Tullia Magrini
  • The Croats and the question of their Mediterranean musical identity Svanibor Pettan
  • On Jewish and Muslim musicians of the Mediterranean Amnon Shiloah
• American Nyckelharpa Association
• The Dissemination of the Nyckelharpa Gunnar Ternhag & Mathias Boström,
• Nyckelharpa
• What is a Nyckelharpa
• Swedish bagpipe music

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Africa

• African Music and Drumming Resources on the Web
• African Music Archive University of Mainz
• RootsWorld's African Music Resources
• Ghana Music
• West African djembe, dun dun drumming

Latin America, the Caribbean, South America

• Latin American Resources from Univ. of Texas
• LatinoWeb: Art and Music
• Music in Dominica
• Merengue: The Music (extracted from "Teaching & Salsa" by Loo Yeo)
• Salsa Stories" A community history Virtual Tour
• Salsa: The Music (from "Teaching & Salsa" by Loo Yeo)
• Salsaweb
• WNUR Roots Music Info Source-Continental Drift
• SKA! SKA! SKA!
• Reggae- 3 FAQs
• Ernesto's Tango Page
• Cybertango
• World-Wide Samba Home Page
• Bienvenidos a la primera página de folklore cordobés Argentina
• Candombe=The Drumming of Uraguay
• Candombe
• Andean Musical Instruments
• Descarga.comLatin music
• The Infography about Brazil -- Popular Music
• Brazilian Music
• Timba, Salsa from Cuba
• THE BERIMBAU; Heart of Capoeira
• The Brazilian Sound
• Holy Week in Campanha
• Salsa2salsa

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Oceania

• The Infography about Music -- Oceania (Pacific Islands)
• Mundo Etnico
• Folk Australia online resource form Australian folk music
• iDIDJ Australia-Australian didgeridoo cultural hub
• Research in New Zealand Performing Arts Open-access peer reviewed journal
• The Didgeridoo Page
• Music Archive for Australia
• Australian Bush Music & Dance: Wongawilli style
• Collaborative Music Making Anne Norman
• Manikay.com Traditional Aboriginal Arnhem Land Music
• Archive of New Zealand Music
• Archive of Maori and Pacific Music Univ. of Auckland
• Traditional Maori Music
• New Zealand - The Music of the Maori
• Music Samples of New Zealand
• The Glorius Gamelan Virtual Tour
• Music Archive for Papua New Guinea
• Traditional Music of the Ethnic Minorities on the Philippine Islands
• Kwayas, Kandas, Kiosks Tanzanian Popular Choir Music Gregory Barz
• Sarawak Sape Borneo

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Dancing and Dance Music

• Country Dance and Song Society
• English Folk Dance Project
• Ernesto's Tango Page ( 7-Mar-1995)
• Flamenco
• esFlamenco.com
• Folkedance and folkmusic in Denmark

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