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Cover StoryUNESCO’s World of Music
The UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music is an outcome of UNESCO’s aim to bring about lasting peace founded on “mutual understanding” and “the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.”...
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Recording SpotlightA Guide to the UNESCO Collection
How does the dilettante music lover find a foothold in an unbelievably dense and intimidating catalog?
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Archive SpotlightFrom Analog to Digital
Overtime, both the “world music” commercial market and the intellectual climate for on-location study of traditional music had evolved…
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Community SpotlightI Want the Signals, Not Static
So much of the music we consume is accompanied by this blinding aesthetic of music marketing and manufactured artist identity…
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From the FieldSurvival of the Fittest
Winter is the best time to find a singer in the Mongolian countryside, so long as you can deal with the cold…
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From the FieldYou Are What You Hear
I'd never heard anything quite like it before, and it punctured a hole in my armor of habitual listening.…
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video spotlight“Deltei Tsenkher” A Mongolian Long Song by R. Lkhamjav
R. Lkhamjav, sixty-six years old, sings a Khotgoid-style long song, “Deltei Tsenkher” (The Blue Dun), in Mörön, Khövsgöl province, Mongolia, in December 2013. Recorded by Sunmin Yoon.
Albums
From the Collection
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Ethiopia: Three Cordophone Traditions
Various Artists
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Afghanistan: Female Musicians of Herat
Various Artists
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Bali: Folk Music
Various Artists
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Portugal: Festas in Minho
Various Artists
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Central African Republic
Various Artists
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Aka Pygmy Music
Various Artists
Back Issues
- April 2017 Experimental
- November 2016 Education
- April 2016 Migration
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- March 2018: NEA National Heritage
- April 2017: Experimental
- November 2016: Education
- April 2016: Migration
- July 2015: UNESCO Collection
- March 2015: New Orleans
- October 2014: Labor
- June 2014: South Africa
- February 2014: Faith
- July 2013: Peace
- March 2013: Soundscapes
- June 2012: Cover Art
- December 2011: Latin American
- August 2011: Afghanistan
- May 2011: Asian American
- February 2011: Jazz
- November 2010: Mary Lou Williams
- June 2010: Grassroots
- April 2010: Central Asia
- January 2010: Roberto Martínez
- September 2009: Children's Music
- June 2009: Traditions
- April 2009: Pete Seeger