African American Gospel Music Performed by Dutch Choirs in the Netherlands. Documented by Portia Maultsby (Indiana University). This collection consists of eleven hours from a total of forty hours of video tapes recorded between 1998 and...more

AHEYM: The Archive of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories. Documented by Project AHEYM (Dov-Ber Kerler and Jeffrey Veidlinger) (Indiana University). The Archives of Historical and Ethnographic Yiddish Memories (AHEYM—the acronym means "homeward" in Yiddish) includes approximately...more

Arabian Peninsula Music, with performers of Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Documented by Lisa Urkevich (American University of Kuwait). This collection is comprised of live performances, often with dance, of male musicians...more

Bhavai Performance in Gujarat, India. Documented by Ami Dilip Ahalpara (Independent). This footage consists of various Bhavai performances recorded in the region of North-Gujarat, India in 2006-2007. It is believed that Bhavai was invented in the...more

Children's Songs, Games, and Dance in South Africa. Documented by Andrea Emberly (University of Washington). This video collection consists of children's songs (both traditional and non-traditional), game songs, traditional games, handclapping games, and traditional and non-traditional...more

Cultural Performances in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Documented by Jessica Anderson Turner (Indiana University). The videos in this collection contain footage from performances and interviews from several sites in the mountains of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous...more

Dan and Wobé Mask Performance in Côte d'Ivoire. Documented by Daniel Reed (Indiana University). This collection comprises a portion of a larger body of video footage shot by Daniel B. Reed and his research team during...more

Dance Forms in Malawi, Nkhata Bay, Tonga, Tumbuka and Ngonde. Documented by Lisa Gilman (University of Oregon). This collection provides a sampling of some of the dance forms active in the Nkhata Bay District during the...more

Dance, Music, and Custom in Romania. Documented by Colin Quigley (University of Limerick). This collection is drawn from a larger collection that spans 1993 to 2006, recorded throughout Romania, and containing nearly 100 tapes. For the...more

Folk-Religious Life in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. Documented by Kristina Wirtz (Western Michigan University). This collection documents public folk-religious life in the eastern Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba. The recordings focus on Santería but show...more

Generations of Sound: Popular Music, Genre, and Performance in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Documented by Alex Perullo (Bryant University). This collection of videos represents a broad cross-section of popular music found in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania....more

Gospel Music Performance in Indiana and Texas, USA. Documented by Mellonee Burnim (Indiana University). This tape series from 1979 features performances of African American gospel music in two very distinct settings—Grace Apostolic Church in Indianapolis, Indiana...more

Indiana Musical Instrument Makers and their Craft: Field Interviews and Demonstrations. Documented by Jon Kay (Indiana University). Instrument builders select, cut, carve, scrape, and bend materials to sculpt sounds and tones. From violins and guitars to...more

Instrumental and Vocal Performance Genres, Dance Forms, and Ritual Events in Rural Sarawak, Malaysia. Documented by Gini Gorlinski (Encyclopedia Britannica). Instrumental and vocal performance genres, dance forms, ritual events, and an array of other video snapshots...more

Interviews, Music, Mas' (Masquerade) and Dance Performances in Grenada and Trinidad. Documented by Donald Hill (State University on New York (SUNY) College at Oneonta). Most of the film and video in this collection was shot in...more

Kohomba Kankariya and Kandyan Dance in Sri Lanka. Documented by Susan Reed (Bucknell University). This collection documents the ritual of the Kohomba kankariya and Kandyan dance of Sri Lanka. The first set consists of five hours...more

Kpelle Music Events in Monrovia and Sanoyea Liberia. Documented by Ruth Stone (Indiana University). This collection includes musical events from performances by Kpelle and other musicians in Liberia, West Africa, beginning in late December 1988 and...more

Lak Ceremonies and Rites in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Documented by Paul Wolffram (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand). The audio and video recordings in this collection were made during the researcher's 25 month period...more

Linda Escobar and Tejano Conjunto Music in South Texas. Documented by Margaret Ellen Dorsey (The University of Texas-Pan American). This collection draws attention to the life and work of a female conjunto performer, Linda Escobar and...more

Manganiyar Musical Practices From Western Rajasthan, India. Documented by Shalini Ayyagari (University of California, Berkeley). This collection includes various musical practices of the Manganiyar, a professional hereditary musician community from the Thar Desert region of western...more

Mariachi in the United States and Mexico. Documented by Cándida Jáquez (Scripps College). This material documents mariachi and general Mexicano/Chicano cultural expression conducted in Alburquerque, NM; Austin, TX; San Antonio, TX; and Mexico City, Mexico in...more

Mundane and Spectacular Events among the Cajuns and Creoles of Louisiana. Documented by John Laudun (The University of Louisiana at Lafayette). The footage in this collection is from two particular events that occur within the lives...more

Music of the Jalis (Griots) and Drum and Dance Events in Mali, Senegal, and the Gambia. Documented by Eric Charry (Wesleyan University). The bulk of this collection centers on music of jalis (griots) and drum and...more

Music of Urban Communities in Ghana and African Extensions. Documented by Daniel Avorgbedor (Ohio State University). This collection represents a cumulative research archive of mixed performances and general cultural traditions. Within Ghana, the video documents urban...more

Music Performance in Scottish Evangelicalism, 2005-2008. Documented by Frances Wilkins (The Elphinstone Institute of the University of Aberdeen). This collection comprises video footage of gospel music events taking place during fieldwork in North-East Scotland from 2005...more

Music, Culture and Rituals among the Vai, Gola, Mende, and Dei people in Liberia. Documented by Lester Monts (The University of Michigan). The video data contained in this compilation were collected among the Vai people of...more

Music, Dance, Ceremonies, and Rituals in Pakistan and India. Documented by Richard Wolf (Harvard University). This collection features music, dance, life cycle ceremonies, and religious rituals recorded during research in India (1990-92, 1996-99) and Pakistan (1997-98)....more

Music, Folklore, and Nationalism among Palestinian Refugees in Amman, Jordan. Documented by David McDonald (Indiana University). Instrumental and vocal performance genres, indigenous dances, life cycle celebrations, and nationalist protest song are documented in this collection of...more

Music, Song, and Dance on Mexico's Costa Chica. Documented by John McDowell (Indiana University). This collection is focused on the wonderful song, dance, and music of Mexico's Costa Chica, a coastal region running south and east...more

Musical Labor Performance from the Sukuma Region of Western Tanzania. Documented by Frank Gunderson (Florida State University). In the Sukuma region of Western Tanzania as in other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, rural life relies upon cooperative...more

Mvano Women's Guild Music and Dance in Malawi. Documented by Clara Henderson (Indiana University). The videos in this collection are part of a larger series of recordings and personal interviews pertaining to the music of Blantyre...more

Oral History of Daisy Turner. Documented by Jane Beck (Vermont Folklife Center). The 26 tapes in this collection contain approximately ten hours of interviews with the late Daisy Turner, born in Grafton, Vermont in 1883. Daisy...more

Organized Dance Group Repertoire and Unrehearsed Dancing in Macedonia. Documented by Elsie Dunin (University of California, Los Angeles). Organized dance group repertoire and unrehearsed dancing in Macedonia, 1988 is a video record of dance repertoire from...more

Parading Traditions in Northern Ireland. Documented by Jackie Witherow (Queen's University Belfast). This collection contains a comprehensive documentation of the parading tradition in Northern Ireland, focusing on the events of 2005. This project aims to highlight...more

Rap and Ragga Performance in Malawi. Documented by John Fenn (University of Oregon). This collection comprises video shot during two separate field trips (1999 and 2000) to Malawi for research on rap and ragga musical culture...more

Reform Jewish Musical Leadership, Training, and Practice. Documented by Judah Cohen (Indiana University). The materials in this collection provide a cross section of musical leadership and training in American Reform Judaism in 1999-2000. Video footage comes...more

Religious Festivities, Ritual Dances, and Popular Theatre in Portugal. Documented by Barbara Alge (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock). This collection consists of audiovisual recordings of Portuguese ritual dances, religious festivities and popular theatre including the...more

Song and Instrumental Genres of Southern Altai Turkic Peoples in Russia and Mongolia. Documented by Ghilyana Dordzhieva (Independent). The video collection focuses on the music traditions of the Southern Altai. This unique high-mountain region is reputed...more

Suyá Kĩsêdjê Ceremonies, Song, and Dance in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Documented by Anthony Seeger (UCLA). These are video recordings of the preparation for and performance of one fairly complete ceremony in 1996 and several songs and...more

Taarab, Ngoma, and Dansi performances in Tanzania. Documented by Kelly Askew (The University of Michigan). Musical genres include taarab (sung Swahili poetry) ngoma ('traditional' dance), and dansi (urban popular music); performance contexts include competitions, weddings, and concerts...more

Thai Classical Music Performance and Ritual. Documented by Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside). This collection represents an esoteric world of performers who maintain a very old set of ritual practices. It is tightly focused on...more

The Social Construction of Knowledge and Culture in U.S. Middle Eastern Music and Dance Pedagogical Events. Documented by Anthony Guest-Scott (Indiana University). This collection emerged from multi-sited doctoral dissertation fieldwork on Middle Eastern music and dance...more

Traditional Music of Malaysia. Documented by Patricia Matusky (Grand Valley State University). This collection documents many genres of traditional Malaysian music from both the Peninsula and Sarawak in Borneo Malaysia. Some of the forms are nearly...more

Two Generations Of Traditional Women's Singing in Northern Russia. Documented by Polina Proutskova (Independent). This collection recorded in 2006 documents two generations of traditional village singing and dancing in contemporary Northern Russia: a traditional ensemble of...more

Village and Marriage Rituals in Turkey. Documented by Kimberly Hart (Buffalo State College, New York). The collection depicts rituals of marriage in western Turkey. It includes stages of the public, village-based rituals including the söz "promise,"...more

Vodou Rites in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Documented by Lois Wilcken (City Lore, New York City). This collection captures sacred rites of Haitian Vodou in a community of Portail Léogane on the southern limits of the capital city...more