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Best of the Web: Performing Arts » Music » Recorded Sound & Moving Image Collections
- Archive of World Music, Harvard University
- Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University
- Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- Belfer Audio Laboratory & Archive, Syracuse University
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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Recorded Sound Collection, Nashville, Tennessee
Holdings include approximately 200,000 sound recordings of country and folk music, from cylinders to compact discs. Library also includes books, periodicals, photos, scrapbooks, newsletters, songbooks, videos and films.
- Discoteca di Stato: National Sound Archive of Italy, Rome
- Finnish Institute of Recorded Sound
- Glinka State Central Museum of Musical Culture, Moscow
- Historical Sound Recordings Collection, Yale University
- Institute of Jazz Studies (The John Cotton Dana Library at The Rutgers State University of New Jersey, Newark)
- Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
- International Piano Archives at Maryland, University of Maryland at College Park
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Irish Traditional Music Archive
National reference archive for the traditional song, instrumental music and dance of Ireland. Contains extensive holdings of non-commercial and commercial sound recordings, videos, DVDs, books, serials, sheet music, ballad sheets, photographs.
- Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center
- Louis Armstrong Archives, Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library, Queens College
- Louis Armstrong House and Archives
- Marr Sound Archives, University of Missouri, Kansas City
- Phonogrammarchiv: Oesterreichs wissenschaftliches Schallarchiv, oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenchaften
- Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University
- Russian History Audio Archive, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, USA
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library
- Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero, New Zealands's Foremost Radio Archive
- Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University
- Swiss National Sound Archives
- Vincent Voice Library, Michigan State University
- William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz, Tulane University
- Yale University Music Library
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YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Recorded Sound Archives
Contains music and spoken word recordings, dating from 1900,including Yiddish and Hebrew folk, popular and theatre music, Jewish radio programs, oral history interviews, field recordings, record company catalogs.
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Marx brothers: Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo. Billy Rose Theatre Collection.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery