LibGuides: Music: Ethnic/World music

Websites for All World Cultures

British Library: World & Traditional Music Sounds
Thousands of recordings searchable by language or country.
Society for Ethnomusicology
Works to promote the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts.

Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries.

Der Salsaholic
A glossary of Latin music terms.
Latin American Choral Music
A compilation of information about choral music by Latin American composers from 1550 to the present.
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Links to regional and country music resources maintained by the University of Texas.

Jewish Music WebCenter
A comprehensive resource for Jewish music. It includes recordings, sheet music, biographies and articles plus much more.
Jewish Music Research Centre of Hebrew University
The Jewish Music Research Centre of Hebrew
University in Jerusalem documents and publishes
CDs, books, articles and scores.

Arabic Music Archives
Archive of Arabic music playable online and some sheet music. Also includes videos of various Arabic instruments and instrumental music.
Maqam World
A non-commercial, educational web site dedicated to helping musicians understand the maqam or modal system used in classical Arabic music.
Traditional Arabic Music
Includes music styles and genres of the various countries of the Arab World and the history and evolution of Arabic music.

DaisyField.com Archive of Japanese Traditional Music
Public-domain transcriptions of traditional Japanese songs, including sheet music and MIDI or MP3 of each song.
HIMIG: The Filipino Music Collection of Filipinas Heritage Library
Stories, essays, readings, and over 1000 records of original Filipino music from the 1920s to the 1990s.