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![](Images/spacer.gif) Collections in the EVIA Digital Archive Project represent a diverse range of performance traditions from around the world. This list presents accepted collections that are in various stages of completion.
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![The Dutch Mass Choir, directed by Edith Kastelijn, in concert, the Netherlands. Image © Edith Kastelijn.](Images/thumbs/MaultsbyCollectionImage.jpg)
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![Professors Dov-Ber Kerler and Jeffrey Veidlinger interviewing Nokhem Gvinter in Bershad, Ukraine, 2008. Image © The AHEYM Project.](Images/thumbs/aheymCollection.jpg)
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![Bin Hussein Sea Band of Kuwait playing the <em>Ihalla</em> water jugs, 2006. Image © Lisa Urkevich.](Images/thumbs/Urkevich_collection_image1.jpg)
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![Wedding of Raam and Seeta—an episode from <em>Ramayana</em>, enacted by Avadichya Brahmins during their annual Bhavai ritual in the Jadeshwar temple courtyard. Paladi, Gujarat, India, 2006. Image © Ami Dilip Ahalpara.](Images/thumbs/ahalparaCollection.jpg)
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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
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![Elelwani Michelle Mutangwa, a Venda child from Tshakuma Village, plays the <em>murumba</em> drum and sings <em>ngano</em> (folklore) children's songs. Limpopo Province, South Africa, 2007. Image © Andrea Emberly.](Images/thumbs/AndreaEmberlyCollection.jpg)
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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
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![Song and Dance Group, Yinshui Dong Village, Longsheng County, 2004. Image © Jessica Anderson Turner.](Images/thumbs/jessica_collection-6.jpg)
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![Two <em>genu</em> from Petit Gbapleu at a <em>Gebian</em>, or Racing Mask Competition, with drummer Semlen Aimé, Man, Cote d'Ivoire, 1997. Image © Daniel Reed.](Images/thumbs/DanielReedCollection.jpg)
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![A <em>chilimika</em> dance team performing at a UDF rally for Aleke Banda, Tukombo, 1999. Image © Lisa Gilman.](Images/thumbs/GilmanCollection2.jpg)
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![Young men of the village Calușer group sing in their church before proceeding to visit houses throughout the community, Oraștioara de Jos, Romania, 1998. Image from video © Colin Quigley.](Images/thumbs/quigley2Collection.jpg)
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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
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![Procession celebrating the Day of Santa Bárbara through the neighborhood of Los Hoyos, Santiago de Cuba, 1999. Image © Kristina Wirtz.](Images/thumbs/wirtzCollection3.jpg)
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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
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![Dancers from](Images/thumbs/Perullo_collection_image-1.jpg)
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![The Bishop's Choir of Grace Apostolic Church, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979. Director, Donald Golder. Image from video © Mellonee Burnim.](Images/thumbs/BurnimCollection.jpg)
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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
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![Ehsan Kousari with handcrafted <em>santour</em>, Indiana, USA, 2005. Image © Jon Kay.](Images/thumbs/Kay_collection_image-2_Ehsan-Kousari.jpg)
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![Kenyah musician Tanyit Paren making some repairs to a <em>sampé'</em> (plucked lute), Long Mekaba, Sarawak, Malaysia, 1992. Image © Gini Gorlinski.](Images/thumbs/GorlinskiCollection.jpg)
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![Big Drum Dance with Caddy John on <em>cut</em> drum and May Fortune on <em>rum</em> and <em>chac-chac</em>, early 1970s. Image © Donald Hill.](Images/thumbs/HillCollection2.jpg)
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![Kandyan dancer Peter Surasena adorned in full ritual costume, performing to the rhythms of the Kandyan drum, played by I.G. Sirisoma (center) and Rattota Sirisena (right), Kandy, Sri Lanka, 1987. Image © Susan A. Reed.](Images/thumbs/susanReedCollection.jpg)
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![Feme Neni-Kole, lead female soloist in the St. Peter's Lutheran Church Kpelle choir, which performed at the James Y. Gbarbea funeral, Monrovia, Liberia, 1988. Image from video © Verlon L. and Ruth M. Stone.](Images/thumbs/StoneCollection.jpg)
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![Men perform a <em>pokpok</em> dance in Torhbung community, Lak region, 2004. Image © Paul Wolffram.](Images/thumbs/WolfframCollection.jpg)
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![Tejano <em>conjunto</em> vocalist Linda Escobar. Image © Linda Escobar.](Images/thumbs/DorseyCollection.jpg)
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![Hakim Khan Manganiyar in Harawa Village, India, 2006. Image © Shalini Ayyagari.](Images/thumbs/AyyagariCollection3.jpg)
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![Image © Cándida Jáquez](Images/thumbs/jaquezCollection.jpg)
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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
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![Two masked Mermentau Mardi Gras dance during a house stop in Mermentau Cove, Louisiana, 2007. Image © John Laudun.](Images/thumbs/JohnLaudunCollection.jpg)
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![Amadu Bansang Jobarteh playing the <em>kora</em> at his home in The Gambia, 1989. Image from video © Eric Charry.](Images/thumbs/Charry02Collection.jpg)
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![Women singers conclude a morning church service with traditional song and dance, <em>Kinka</em>, at the Apostolic Revelation Society (Church) in Accra, Ghana, 2004. Image © Daniel Avorgbedor.](Images/thumbs/Avorgbedor_collection_image-1.jpg)
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![North of Scotland Gospel Male Voice Choir, Buckie, 2007. Image © Frances Wilkins.](Images/thumbs/FrancesWilkinsCollection.jpg)
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![Initiate singers in the <em>mɔli sande</em> society located in Gohn, Gawula Chiefdon. Liberia, 1988. Image from video © Lester Monts.](Images/thumbs/MontsCollection.jpg)
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![Nur Muhammad, an itinerant musician (<em>jogi</em>), plays the <em>sārangī</em> while singing <em>daha</em>s. Hallaur, Basti district, Uttar Pradesh, 1998. Image from video © Richard Wolf.](Images/thumbs/WolfCollection.jpg)
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![Palestinian protest ensemble <em>Al-Ashiqeen</em> in concert, Amman, Jordan, 2004. Image © David A. McDonald.](Images/thumbs/DavidMcDonaldCollection.jpg)
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![Members of musical group Los Dinamicos, Acapulco, 1996. Image © Patricia Glushko.](Images/thumbs/mcdowell_collection_image-1.jpg)
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![Sukuma Dancer, Kisesa Township, Tanzania, 2004. Image © Frank Gunderson.](Images/thumbs/Gunderson_collection_image-1.JPG)
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![Mvano women singing and dancing during a Presbyterian women's meeting at Chitsime CCAP Church. Limbe, Malawi, 2003. Image © Clara Henderson.](Images/thumbs/HendersonCollection.jpg)
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![Daisy Turner narrates her family history. Grafton, Vermont, 1985. Image from video © Jane Beck.](Images/thumbs/BeckCollection.jpg)
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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
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![Members of KUD (Cultural Artistic Group) perform beginning](Images/thumbs/DuninCollection.jpg)
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![A Loyalist Blood and Thunder flute band at an annual Battle of the Boyne commemoration parade during Protestant marching season in Limavady, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 2005. Image © Jacqueline Witherow.](Images/thumbs/Witherow_collection_image1.jpg)
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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
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![Members of the Ghost Face Clan, a sub-group of the C.O.B. Connection, rehearse a cappella in the hills above Blantyre, 2000. From left to right: Mutinji, Mad Muffin, Red Gun, and Meckai B. Image © John Fenn.](Images/thumbs/FennCollection2.jpg)
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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
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![Songleaders at the Kutz Camp Institute lead a communal paraliturgical song session at the camp session's final banquet, Warwick, New York, 2000. Image from video © Judah Cohen.](Images/thumbs/CohenCollection2.jpg)
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![Dança dos Mourisqueiros as Dança do Sobreiro, Festa da Bugiada, Sobrado (Valongo), 2005. Image from video © Barbara Alge.](Images/thumbs/algeCollection2.jpg)
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![Torbat Suren. Achit ghazr, Uvs aimag, Mongholia, 2002. Image © Gilyana Dorjieva.](Images/thumbs/DorjievaCollection.jpg)
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![Men singing and dancing in the Mouse Ceremony, Mato Grosso Brazil, 1996. Image from video © Anthony Seeger.](Images/thumbs/SeegerCollection.jpg)
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![Malika, a <em>taarab</em> singer from Mombasa. Image © Kelly Askew.](Images/thumbs/Askew_collection_image-3.jpg)
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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
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![Image from video © Deborah Wong](Images/thumbs/DeborahWongCollection.jpg)
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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
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![Campers pause to perform in place during the traditional processional down the hill from the Dining Hall to the Dance Hall on the final day of the Mendocino Middle Eastern Music and Dance Camp, California, 2008. Image © Anthony Guest-Scott.](Images/thumbs/GuestScottCollection.jpg)
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![The Malaysian shadow play puppets in the opening scene of a performance depicting wisdom, the forces of good and evil, and the tree of life that signals the world in its totality. Kelantan, Malaysia, 1994. Image from video © Patricia Matusky.](Images/thumbs/Matusky-YamaguchiCollection3.jpg)
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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
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![The Cherenovo singers, Ustyanski rayon, Arkhangelskaya oblast, Russia, 2006. Image from video © Polina Proutskova.](Images/thumbs/proutskova2Collection.jpg)
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![Hatice dances with her groom and future in-laws in Orselli Village, Turkey, 2001. Image from video © Kimberly Hart.](Images/thumbs/HartCollection.jpg)
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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
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![A <em>manbo</em> (female Vodou priest) is possessed by Gede, spirit of the dead, during a ritual in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1995. Image from video © Lois Wilcken.](Images/thumbs/WilckenCollection.jpg)
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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
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