Archive of World Music (old)
The Archive of World Music, a collection of the Loeb Music Library, was established in 1976 by Professor John Ward and in 1992, with the appointment of Kay Kaufman Shelemay as Harvard's first senior professor of ethnomusicology. It is devoted to the acquisition of archival field recordings of musics world-wide as well as to commercial sound recordings, videos, and DVDs of ethnomusicological interest.
Notable collections include:
Beyond the Music Library
Libraries and museums around campus hold ethnographic collections. Here are further places to look.
- Tozzer LibraryCollects comprehensively in all subfields of anthropology, with a special emphasis on materials relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
- Widener Library Judaica CollectionMaterials covering all aspects of Jewish life and culture in every place and period, with particularly comprehensive coverage of Jewish life and culture in the State of Israel.
- The Milman Parry Collection of Oral LiteratureThe largest single repository of South Slavic heroic songs in the world. Available online: selected audio recordings, text files of oral literature, and photographs collected by Professors Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord.
- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and EthnologyEstablished in 1866 as one of the first museums of anthropology, the Peabody Museum currently cares for a large and historic collection of anthropological materials from across the globe.