Folk Music Downloads from the Smithsonian Institute
Smithsonian Global Sound a project of The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage makes a treasure trove of the worlds recorded folk heritage available for download at 99 cents a track. This is a truly amazing resource.
Launched in February 2005, SGS initially offers almost the entire Folkways and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings collections and the holdings of two regional archives: the International Library of African Music (ILAM), in Grahamstown, South Africa, and the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), in New Delhi, India. Expansion of educational offerings and user groups and partnerships with other archives around the world are anticipated with the growth and success of SGS….
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