Ethnographic Sound Archives Online

Ethnographic Sound Archives Online is a digitized collection of previously unpublished historical audio field recordings of music from around the world, accompanied by supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata. These recordings allow for the study of music in its cultural context. The majority of materials in the collection were recorded during the early days of ethnomousicology as a discipline, the 1960s - 1980s. Highlights include Mark Slobin’s survey of Afghan music, Nazir Jairazbhoy’s survey of classical Indian music, and Hugh Tracey’s survey of southern and central African music. Materials created by ethnomusicologists that accompany each recording, such as handwritten notes, images, and videos, aim to show how people perform music in cultural contexts. 

This collection may also be cross-searched with other anthropology and ethnography collections in ProQuest One Anthropology (Alexander Street).