Middle East music collections
- From the Cylinder Preservation & Digitization Project, UCSB Library's Special Collections
- "The Golhā ('Flowers of Persian Song and Music') comprise 1400 radio programs consisting of approximately 886 hours of programs broadcast over a period of 23 years - from 1956 through 1979."
- The classical music of Iraq
Music collections worldwide
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
check under these countries: Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Iran, Israel-Palestine, Kazhakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Yemen; and others as appropriate
- Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings This link opens in a new window
Gives access to the cultural and social lives of the source communities represented within the recordings, allowing users a unique insight into the musical traditions of these communities. Allows for the study of cultural identity, social norms, religion and ritual, and gender roles, as well as many other themes.
Spoken Word
- The Sirat Bani Hilal Digital Archive is devoted to preserving and making accessible to scholars and the general public original recordings and other documentation concerning the Arabic oral epic poem Sirat Bani Hilal
- The Archive was created by Prof. Dwight Reynolds and is maintained with support of the American Council of Learned Societies and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Published by PhD students from Georgetown University this collection contains recordings of various lengths on topics related to Ottoman history, politics, and culture (including music)
- Each podcast is accompanied by selected bibliography on the topic