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The Terence Bech Collection at the Archives of Traditional Music is the most expansive repository of Nepali music and cultural materials outside Nepal. Drawing on his many years of engagement with the collection, Suyash Kumar Neupane proposes archives and their holdings as inherently dynamic sites of recontextualization—layered and shaped by time, labor, and perspective. He also emphasizes how each act of listening, cataloging, and interpretation adds a new stratum to an already complex palimpsest of sounds, images, and meanings to archives and their collections.

During American Archives Month (October) this year, the Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) staff was busy preparing to remember and honor Indiana University (IU) alumnus (MA ’61) Joseph C. “Joe” Hickerson, who passed away August 17, 2025, at the age 89. The fruits of ATM staff activity are featured during the Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) […]

Indiana University’s Archives of Traditional Music (ATM) has reopened to the public in a new space on the Bloomington campus.

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…

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 […]

On Jan. 17, 2024, the Library of Congress announced six awards for the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative. Indiana University was honored to receive fun

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 […]

Ph.D. Amelia Lopez shares her experience of the Archives of Traditional Music.

Thanks to the work of scholars Xavier Vatin and Cassio Nobre, and funding from the Brazilian Ministry, 1,000 copies of a 2 CD-set and catalogue describing the r