Audio & Visual Resources - Music of the World - MUS 213 - Mok - Marshall Brooks Library at Principia College

Resources for Images

Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (Library of Congress)
"The collections of the Prints & Photographs Division include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people."
LIFE photo archive
"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google."

Artstor This link opens in a new window
With more than 2 million images* (and growing), scholars can easily examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and modern architectural plans from Columbia University.

Composed of approximately 300 curated sub-collections, Artstor supports and enriches study across disciplines, including world events from Magnum Photos, anthropology from Harvard’s Peabody Museum, and archaeology from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Art Archives and, making it a resource for your whole institution

Pixabay
Pixabay has a large collection of royalty-free, openly licensed images.

Resources for Sound Recordings

World Music Archive (BBC)
"Explore more than a decade of Radio 3 on-location recordings from 2000 to the present in our World Music archive, recording the life and musical traditions of countries ranging from Brazil to North Korea and Cuba to Turkmenistan."
Library of Congress Digital Collection
For best results, try searching for the name of a specific tribe (most useful for exploring the music of Native America)
International Library of African Music (ILAM)
"Founded in 1954 by Hugh Tracey, ILAM is the largest repository of African music in the world. A research institution devoted to the study of music in Africa, it preserves thousands of historical recordings going back to 1929. It is currently digitizing its collections and making them accessible globally via its ILAM Sound and Photo Archive Online."
Archive of Indian Music
"The Archive of Indian Music seeks to digitize and preserve for posterity the valuable slices of India’s cultural history and musical heritage...Listen to some of the best voices and the most divine instruments of this country cutting across various genres- Hindustani classical, Carnatic classical, Theatre, Early cinema, Folk and the rest!"
Library of Congress: Sound Recordings of Indians of North America Collection
Omaha Indian Music: Library of Congress
This collection from the Library of Congress includes photographs and sound recordings of the traditional music of the Omaha people
Montana Folklife Recordings: Library of Congress
This digital collection includes music from Montana, including both folk music and the music of native peoples in the state.
East African Recordings (Global Music Archive)
"The Global Music Archive is a multi-media archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and North and South America, with particular emphasis on the African Diaspora. The Archive is housed within the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library in Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music."
Music & Audio from the Himalayas
From the University of Cambridge
National Jukebox
"The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives."
Turkish Music Portal
This website, maintained by the Turkish Cultural Foundation, contains "Turkish classical, folk, pop and contemporary music from original performers."