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Vocal and instrumental performances of Kalevalan and Karelian folk music. Instrumentation includes kantele (harp), jouhikko (bowed string instrument), pilli (birch bark flute), tuohi (wooden trumpet), Russian horse bells, two-button accordian, mandalin, Estonian bagpipe, and bass. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Sones de México performs traditional Mexican music. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
"Corridos from the Mexican Revolution" (presented by Juan Díes). Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
This collection of Somali poetry includes recitations of a multitude of genre including religious music associated with Ramadan and recreational poetry and songs including churning, pounding, mat-weaving, sheep, goat and cattle-watering, welcoming and children's songs.
Two lectures given by Nigerian composer and ethnomusicologist Akin Euba on traditional and modern Nigerian music. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note that collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
"Future Directions in Ethnomusicology" panel discussion. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Discussion of the George Herzog collections at the Archives of Traditional Music, of early ethnomusicologists and the development of the field, and biographical information on Herzog. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
The information presented here about each recording in this collection comes from original documentation by the collector/depositor Jerome Mintz. Additions by archival staff for clarity are framed in brackets [ ]. These recordings sometimes addressed politically sensitive topics and to protect the safety of the individuals in these recordings, Jerome Mintz did not document their full identities. The Archives of Traditional Music makes these recordings available for research and users should be aware that any archival collection may contain material that users find offensive.
This collection consists of music, oral data, and interviews among the Kpelle of Liberia and includes popular zither, lamellphone, musical bow, lute, slit-drum and xylophone music; Kpelle script interviews; children's songs, work-songs, drum signals, tales, cante-fables and music associated with rites and ceremonies. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
This collection primarily consists of religious oral traditions and interviews; also a trial, a masquerade, festivals, prayers, praise songs, divination sessions; several interviews with carvers, musicians, and a potter. Other musical items include funeral music, war-songs, bawdy songs, women's songs and folk dance music.
This collection is excerpted from a larger one on the oral history of Kajor in the last 100 years of its independence, and "ranges over every political event in 18th and 19th century Kajor," concentrating "on the royal family and families of Marabouts"... "prominent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries." Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
These tapes examine mainly the 19th century history of the Futa Toro. The recordings include more formal traditions, as in discussions with members of the hereditary classes of historians (awlube, ma bube, and wambabe) and more formal memoirs, as in interviews with members of the noble clases (to rodbr, sebbe, jawambe, subalbe). Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons. As of April 27, 2022, the following original tapes in this collection have not yet been digitized and will be added to this record at that time: EC 3862, EC 3863, and OT 1863.
WLIB, New York radio station, program entitled "The death of Dr. Martin Luther King." Program consists of excerpts of WLIB broadcasts, which originally aired from April 4-9, 1968--the day of Dr. Marin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, through the King memorial service at Moorehouse College in Atlanta. The station maintained 24-hour programming in the days following Dr. Marin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Broadcast excerpts include interviews of people on the street in Harlem on April 4, an excerpt of President Johnson's radio address, and statements made by John Lindsay, Mayor of New York City, Percy Sutton, Borough President of Manhattan, and others. Also includes an excerpt of the memorial service eulogy given by Dr. Benjamin Mays. Second recording on tape documents the opening ceremonies for "Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900-1968," an exhibition mounted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 18-April 6, 1969. Speakers included Mayor John Lindsay and Thomas Hoving, museum director. Descriptive information presented here may come from original collection documentation. Please note collections of historical content may contain material that could be offensive to some patrons.
