title

Global music archive

homepage

https://www.globalmusicarchive.org/

description

The Global Music Archive is a multimedia 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. It is a public facility that promotes education in African and American traditional and popular music through its own activities and its support for the activities of others. The Archive is housed within the Anne Potter Wilson Music Library in Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music. It includes public rooms for the study of materials, and audio and video listening and viewing facilities. The archive includes a collection of Ugandan popular music cassette tapes, documentaries, audio, bibliographies, and interviews.

type

Catalogue

purpose

Learning

audience

scholars

amateurs

example resource

https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/diglib-fulldisplay.pl?SID=20211208534176612&code=&code=ama&RC=1199&Row=1

type of collected resources

Recording

scope of the collection

Geographical

geographical scope of data

Africa

category of data collected

Metadata

collection size

<10000

data license

CC-BY

data size

~Gb