Early American Secular Music and its European Sources
- Searchable index of sources for early American and European music, covering the years from 1589-1839.
- http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/

Archives of African American Music and Culture
- Materials held by Indiana University covering various musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. Includes a searchable database and publications listing.
- http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/

Smithsonian Global Sound
- Digital downloads of music and sound from around the world, including a wealth of educational content. Includes free previews of content from the Smithsonian/Folkways world music catalogue.
- http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/

National Sound Archive International Music Collection
- The British Library National Sound Archive contains lists of world music recordings with RealAudio samples, as well as links to other world music archives in the UK.
- http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nsa.html

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
- The Smithsonian archives house the Moses and Frances Asch collection, consisting of the entirety of Folkways Records, and the Rinzler Archives, consisting of the written, audio, and visual records of projects and exhibits sponsored by the Center for Folkl
- http://www.folklife.si.edu/center/archives.html

African Music Archive
- A history and general information on the archive at Johannes Gutenburg University, located in Mainz, Germany. The archive publishes NTAMA - The Journal of African Music and Popular Culture. In English and German.
- http://ntama.uni-mainz.de/ama/

Archive of World Music - International Inventory of Musical Sources
- Collection of commercial and field recordings of ethnic and folk musics, with an emphasis on the musics of Asia and the Middle East. Includes general information on the collection, a collection newsletter, and browsable collection databases.
- http://rism.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/index_e.htm

Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers
- Database and index of newspaper articles from 1690-1783.
- http://www.universitymusicedition.com/Performing_Arts/

Wesleyan World Music Archives
- Basic information on the collection and staff.
- http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/srhome/srwma.htm

International Music Collections
- The collection at the British Library includes recordings variously described as traditional, folk or 'world' music. The site includes a discography of their published CDs, and a searchable catalog of published and unpublished recordings.
- http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/imc.html

Southern Folklife Collection
- These holdings, at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, document all forms of Southern musical and oral traditions across the entire spectrum of individual and community expressive arts, as well as mainstream media production. Generally describes
- http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/

Library African Music
- International Library of African Music contains over 40,000 recordings. The site includes a searchable index, as well as sound samples of African instruments.
- http://ilam.ru.ac.za

UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
- The collection includes sound recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-western classical music. The site includes a selected list of current collections.
- http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/

Southern Mosaic
- The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip is a multi-format ethnographic field collection including nearly 700 sound recordings (102 of which are performed in Spanish), fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-
- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html

Archives of Traditional Music
- General information about the Indiana University Archives, including listings of journal contents and a searchable archive database.
- http://www.indiana.edu/~libarchm/

Archive of Folk Culture Collections
- From The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Information, links to online publications and guides to the collections.
- http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/archive.html