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Ethical and permitted usage of recordings
The British Library has digitised these collections of ethnographic sound recordings and made them available purely for the purposes of safeguarding them and for making them available for non-commercial research, study and private enjoyment. These recordings should not be altered or used in ways that might be derogatory to the indigenous and local communities who are traditional custodians of the traditional music, lyrics, knowledge, stories, performances and other creative materials embodied in the sound recordings. Before using these recordings, please read the full text on Ethical and permitted usage of recordings.

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Collections from Africa (general)

• Arthur Morris Jones Africa Collection

Collections from eastern Africa

• Kenneth Gourlay Uganda Collection
• Klaus Wachsmann Uganda Collection
• Peter Cooke Uganda Collection

Collections from southern Africa

• David Rycroft South Africa Collection
• Hans-Joachim Heinz Botswana Collection

Collections from western Africa

• Decca West African recordings
• Giles Swayne Senegal Collection

Collections from Asia (general)

• Colin Huehns Asia Collection

Collections from South Asia

• Guy Adam and Niel Nicholson Nepal Collection
• James Kippen North India Collection
• Music from India
• Nicholas Pierce Balochistan Collection

Collections from Australasia

• George Kingsley Roth Fiji Collection
• Raymond Firth Tikopia Collection
• Simon Seligmann Kiribati Collection

Collections from Europe

• Traditional music in England

Miscellaneous collections

• Ethnographic wax cylinders

 

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