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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label...

Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology

A.R.C.E. is one of the most extensive audiovisual repositories of...

Emory Cook (1913-2002) was an audio engineer and inventor who used his Sounds of our Times and Cook...

The Fast Folk Musical Magazine, formed in New York in 1982...

The Mickey Hart Collection furthers the Grateful Dead percussionist’s endeavor to cross borders..

In 1956, Michael Stillman and his business partner Rose Rubin started...

Folkways Records was founded in 1948. Led by Moses Asch (1905-1986)...

Collector Records was founded in 1970 by the late Joe Glazer, an American folk singer...

Richard Dyer-Bennet (1913-1991), a major figure in the folk music revival...

International Library of African Music

Founded in 1954 by Hugh Tracey, I.L.A.M. is the greatest repository...

Minority Owned Record Enterprises

M.O.R.E. was a homegrown label, founded by Roberto Martínez...

Founded in 1969 by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber, Paredon Records was part of a wave of cultural...