Archives of the French Research Centre of Ethnomusicology (CREM)
The audio archives of the CNRS – Musée de l’Homme gather commercial and unpublished recordings of music and oral traditions from around the world, from 1900 to the present. Consisting of diverse types of media (wax cylinders, 78 rpm, vinyl records, magnetic tapes, audio CDs, born digital records), these archives are among the most important in Europe in terms of quality, quantity and diversity.
Contents
Managed by the Center for Research in Ethnomusicology (CREM), these archives index:
- Over 42,000 unpublished sound documents, among which 32.000 are available for listening, spread though more that 1,000 collections, representing about 4,000 hours of recordings of unpublished fieldworks.
- Over 13,000 published materials, among which 4,600 are available for listening, in more …