Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana University)

Established in 1948 by George Herzog, Archives of Traditional Music is an audiovisual archive that records music and culture from across the globe. It is one of the largest university-based sound archives in the United States with over 100,000 recordings. It boasts of a wide range of cultural and geographical areas, vocal and instrumental music, linguistic materials, folktales, interviews, oral history, as well as videotapes and photographs.

Listening copies are available for approximately sixty-five percent of the catalogued recordings. Oral collections include the Archives of the Languages of the World, collected by Carl and Florence Voegelin, the Nichols Collection of interviews with African authors and the Dennis Duerden Collection of African drama and music. The collection features lectures, interviews and readings by black poets and playwrights. More than 300 languages are found in the Voegelin collections, 180 of which are at risk of extinction and the history and traditions of numerous African communities in the form of oral history.

The listening library is open to members of the public from Monday to Friday at 10h00am until 12h00pm and again at 13h00pm until 17h00pm. Summer opening times are from Monday to Friday at 13h00pm until 17h00pm.