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Archives of Traditional Music

Housed within the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, we offer access to rare and unique audiovisual collections in ethnomusicology.
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  • View of Adriane Pontecorvo from the waist up standing in front of shelves filled with 78rpm record discs in paper sleeves. With fair skin and red hair tied back, she is dressed in a black button-down sweater and floral skirt. She is also wearing glasses, earrings and a necklace as she holds a record disc in her hands showing its label and sleeve markings.
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    Hungary on Hoosier Airwaves

    Subtitle: “Echoes of Diasporic Community in Reverend Stephen J. Vrabely’s Radio Music Archives” By Adriane Pontecorvo In early 2022, Alan Burdette, former Director of the Archives of Traditional Music (ATM), drove four and a half hours from Bloomington into Kendall County, Illinois, to pick up a donation of around 1400 well-kept shellac, lacquer, and vinyl […]
    February 9th, 2024
  • in a black and white image a line of people sitting on horses traverses a hilltop
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    Library of Congress announces IU grant funds

    On Jan. 17, 2024, the Library of Congress announced six awards for the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative. Indiana University was honored to receive fun
    February 8th, 2024
  • Young Pakistani girl using a phone to make a video of dancers and musicians from the Sindh region at the Lok Mela Festival in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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    Indiana and Harvard scholars examine audiovisual preservation needs in Pakistan

    In November 2022, Harvard ethnomusicologist, Dr. Richard K. Wolf invited IU Archives of Traditional Music Director Dr. Alan Burdette to travel to several institutions in Pakistan to hold a series of conversations about audiovisual media archiving. Dr. Wolf is an expert in South Asian music who has deposited some of his fieldwork recordings at the […]
    May 4th, 2023