MUSC 130 Introduction to World Music: Web Sites

Listen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds

A community-built guide to cross country etiquette and understanding

Great audio, video, and visual files

A national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures.

A digital link to the Library of Congress' audio holdings.

The museum collects and displays instruments from around from every country in the world, preserving, protecting, and sharing these gifts with future generations.

Be aware that in this site you need to pay to listen to content.
Folkways Records was founded in 1948 in New York City by Moses Asch and Marian Distler. Folkways records and documents the world of sound. Topics included traditional, ethnic, and contemporary music from around the world; poetry, spoken word, and instructional recordings in numerous languages; and documentary recordings of individuals, communities, current events, and natural sounds.

Contains info of over 5,000 instruments of American and European origin.

A multimedia site featuring the World Instrument Collection at Wesleyan University. Want to know about a kagan, a bouzouki or an ud?

World Music Central is a music site dedicated to World Music. It features the latest news, CD and concert reviews, articles, an events calendar, and many resources (in the form of a wiki) for music fans, industry professionals and researchers.

A multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California.