Sound archives of the CNRS - Musée de l'Homme

title

Sound archives of the CNRS - Musée de l'Homme

homepage

https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/

description

These sound archives gather commercial and field recordings of music and oral traditions from around the world, from 1900 to the present, in diverse types of media (wax cylinders, 78 rpm, vinyl records, magnetic tapes, audio CDs, born digital records, vidéo). The Center for Research in Ethnomusicology (CREM) manages and disseminates this constantly growing scientific heritage. The number of recordings available online on the platform is constantly increasing. The archives include over 60,000 field recordings and published materials, covering 199 countries and 1,300 social and ethnic groups. About 29,000 recordings are available for free, while the rest require a request for access. The platform’s users fill descriptive forms collaboratively and gradually : researchers, students, archivists working together. The CREM welcomes all collaborations aiming to enrich and enhance this valued musical patrimony.

creator or project

National Center for Scientific Research

type

Catalogue

purpose

Learning

audience

researchers

amateurs

listeners

task or research field

music history

archival studies

ethnography

history

history of instruments

social history

technical features

Provides interfaces for browsing contents

Provides user-friendly interfaces

Offers playable music records

example resource

https://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/CNRSMH_E_1932_006_008_001_01/

type of collected resources

Musical Work

Performance

audio

Audio

temporal scope of data

20th century

category of data collected

Metadata

Media

collection size

<100000

data formats

audio

Audio

html5

data license

Open Access

data size

Unknown


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1645714826-766791