Archives

Major archives throughout the world which house significant collections of recorded sound.

• Abilene Christian University, Milliken Special Collections
• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
• African American Treasures (VOA)
• Alan Lomax Archive
• Alan Lomax Collection
• American Comedy Archives
• American Folklife Center
• American Jewish Historical Society
• American Musical Heritage Foundation
• American Musical and Dramatic Academy
• American Philosophical Society, Native American Sound Archive
• American Presidency Project
• American Radio Archives and Museum
• American Sound Archives
• American University, Music Library
• Aotearoa New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive
• Appalachian State University Library
• Appalshop Archive
• Arabic Music Archives
• Arcadia University, Vaughan Memorial Library
• Archer Audio Archives
• Archive of Alabama Folklife
• ARChive of Contemporary Music, New York City
• Archive of Northern Indian Classical Music
• Archive of Southeast Asian Music
• Archives Nationales du Quebec, Archives Audiovisuelles
• Archive of Armenia Music in America
• Archives of Latvian Folklore
• Archives of Monaco
• Archives of Ukraine
• Archivo Audiovisual de Venezuela
• Arhoolie Foundation
• Arizona Memory Project
• Arizona State University
• Armenia.org
• Aspen Historical Society
• Association for Cultural Equity
• Atlanta History Center
• Atlantis Audio Archive
• Auburn University
• Audio Archive
• Audio Foundation (New Zealand)
• Audio Preservation Fund
• Audio-Visual Archive and Cultural Centre (East Timor)
• Austin History Center
• Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Austrian National Library
• Ayn Rand Institute
• Azerbaian Museum of Musical Culture
• Azerbaian's Voice Recording Archive
• Bahamas National Archives
• Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
• Bates College, Edmund S. Muskie Archives
• Bauman Institute, Audio-Visual Archive
• Baylor University, Black Gospel Restoration Project
• Belarus Archive of Cine, Photo and Audio Recordings
• Belarusian State Academy of Music, Ethnomusicological Phonoarchive
• Belarus State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound
• Berklee School of Music, Stan Getz Library
• Berlin Sound Archive
• Biblioteca Naciional de Peru
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
• Bishop Museum Archives
• Blue Ridge Institute and Museum
• Blues Foundation
• Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic Music
• Bob Wills Heritage Foundation
• Bolivia Bella
• Boston College, Irish Music Center
• Boston University Libraries, Music Library
• Bowling Green State University Music Library and Sound Recordings Archive
• Bridgeport Public Library, Audio/Video
• Brigham Young University, Harold B. Lee Library
• British Broadcasting Corporation
• British Columbia Archives
• British Library National Sound Archive
• British Museum, African Sound Archive
• British Music Society
• British Sound Recording Association
• Brooklyn Historical Society
• Brown University, Orwig Music Library
• Budapest Music Center
• CalArts, Sound Collection
• California State Archives
• Caltech Institute Archives
• Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Archives
• Canada's Digital Collections
• Catholic University of America, Music Library
• Caymen Islands National Archives
• Center for Andean Ethnomusicology ΓÇö Lima, Peru┬á┬á┬á
• Center for Documentary Studies
• Center for Folklore Studies
• Center for International Borders Research
• Center for Southern Folklore
• Center for Southwest Research, John Donald Robb Field Recordings
• Center for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research
• Centro Cultural Eduardo Leon Jimenes (Dominican Republic)
• CHARM (Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music)
• Chatham Music Archive
• Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
• Chicago History Museum
• Chicago Public Library, Music Information Center
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• City College of New York, Music Library
• City University of New York, Hunter College, Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
• Clemson University, Special Collections
• Clio Awards Archive
• Colby College, Art and Music Library
• Columbia College Chicago, Center for Black Music Research
• Columbia University, Archival Collections and Oral Histories
• Columbia University, Center for Ethnomusicology
• Columbia University, The Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library
• Computer Museum History Center
• Connecticut College, Greer Music Library
• Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico Biblioteca Amaury Veray
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds
• Cornell University, Sidney Fox Library of Music
• Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
• Creative Audio Archive
• Croation State Archives
• Cultural Survival
• Cylinder Archive
• Cyprus Music Information Centre
• Czech and Slovak Music Society
• Danish National Archives
• Dartmouth Jewish Sound Archive
• Delaware Public Archives
• Digital Library of Appalachia
• Digital Library for International Research
• Digital Tradition Folk Song Database (The Mudcat Caf├⌐)
• DRAM
• Duke University, John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
• Duke University, William Grant Still Collection
• Durbreck Archive of Opera
• Dutch Song Database
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum
• East Carolina University, Music Library
• Eastman School of Music, Sibley Music Library
• East Tennessee University, Archives of Appalachia
• Edison National Historic Site
• Emory University, Music and Media Center
• Eritrea Research and Documentation Center
• Estonian Folklore Archive
• Estonian National Museum
• Estonian Theatre and Music Museum
• Ethnographic Archives (CoPAR)
• Ethnomuse (Slovenia)
• European Commission Audiovisual Library
• European Journalism Center
• European Library
• European Sound Project
• Everett (WA) Public Library, Northwest History Collection
• EVIA
• Finnish National Sound Archive
• Finnish Jazz and Pop Archive
• Florence Griswold Museum
• Florida Atlantic University Archives
• Florida Atlantic University Judaica Sound Archives
• Florida State Library and Archives (Florida Memory)
• Florida State Sound and Video Archive
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Foundation for Iranian Studies
• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
• Free Music Archive
• Freedom Archives
• Free Library of Philadelphia, Music Libraries
• French National Center for Scientific Research
• General Archives of the Mexican Nation
• Genocide Bangladesh
• George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
• George C. Marshall Foundation
• George Mason University, Special Collections
• George W. Bush Presidential Library
• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
• German Broadcasting Archive
• Germany Information Centre, African Music Archive
• Glenbow Museum Archives
• Glenn Miller Archive
• Global Music Archive
• Global Owl Project
• Golden Sufi Center
• Government of the Republic of Slovenia, Audio Archives
• Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
• Harry Smith Archives
• Harvard University, Archive of World Music
• Harvard University, George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room
• Harvard University, Loeb Music Library
• Harvard University, Milman Parry Collection
• Haverford College, Music Library
• Hawaiian Music and Hula Archives
• The Henry Ford
• Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
• Hip Hop Archive
• Hirshhorn Museum Library
• Historical Archives of the European Union
• Historical Sound and Image Archive
• History Meeting House (Poland)
• Hofstra University, Music Library
• Hollins University, Music Library
• Holycross Libraries
• Howard University, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
• Hungaricana Sound Archives of the Institute of Musicology
• Indiana University, Archives of African American Music & Culture
• Indiana University, Archives of Traditional Music
• Indiana University, Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
• Institute for Vietnamese Music
• Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore
• Inter-American University Library
• Intersea Foundation, Sound Archives
• International Dialects of English Archive
• International Jazz Collections
• International Association of Music Information Centers
• International Association of Music Libraries
• International Council for Traditional Music
• International Library of African Music
• International Tennis Hall of Fame
• Internet Archives
• Iraq Jewish Archive
• Irish Traditional Music Archive
• Islamic Art, Music and Architecture Around the World
• Ithica College, Music Library
• Jamaica Archives and Record Department
• Jazz-Institut Darmstadt
• Jazz Music Archives
• Jazz Museum in Harlem, Savory Collection
• Jewish Educational Media
• Jewish Museum, Vienna
• Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
• John Carroll University, Northwest Ohio Broadcast Archives
• John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
• Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Institute
• Julliard
• Kansas State Historical Society
• KCRW Foundation
• Kennan Institute/NPR Russian History Audio Archive
• Kentucky Center for Traditional Music
• Kent State, Performing Arts Library
• Kenyan Audio Visual Archives
• The King Center
• Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications
• La Biennale di Venezia: ┬áArchivio Storico delle arti Comtemporanee (Italy)
• Latvia State Archives of Audiovisual Documents
• Lees-McRae College, Alison Stirling Collection
• Library and Archives of Canada
• Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center
• Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Recorded Sound Section
• Lincoln Libraries, Polley Music Library Archive
• LM Radio Museum and Archive (Portugal)
• Los Alamos Historical Society
• Louis Armstrong House and Museum
• Louisiana Digital Folklore Archives/Acadian and Creole Folklore Archives
• Louisiana Folklife Center
• Louisiana Folklife Program
• Louisiana Music Archive
• Louisiana State Museum, Jazz Collection
• Lower Eastside Tenement Museum
• Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
• Lyon College, John Quincy Wolf Folklife Collection
• Macedonia Academy of Science and Arts
• Mahoning Valley Historical Society, Business and Media Archives
• Manhattan School of Music
• Mannes College of Music, Harry Scherman Library
• Margaret Chase Smith Library
• Marist College, Special Collections
• Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum
• Maryland Historical Society
• Massachusetts Archives
• McGill Distributed Digital Music Archive
• McGill University, Music Library
• McPherson Natural History Unit Sound Archive
• Media History Digital Library
• Memorial University of Newfoundland
• Memoriav
• Michigan State University, Special Collections
• Michigan State University, Vincent Voice Library
• Michigan Traditional Arts Program
• Middle Tennessee State University, Center for Popular Music
• Middlebury College, Research Centers for American Music, Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection and Vermont Archive of Traditional Music
• The Milken Archive of Jewish Music
• Miller Center of Public Affairs
• Ministry of Education, Sports and Culture (Samoa)
• Minnesota Historical Society
• Mississippi Department of Archives and History
• Missouri Folklore Society
• Missouri State University, Max Hunter's Song Collection
• Monash University, the Australian Archive of Jewish Music
• Mount Allison University, Music Library
• Museum of Broadcast Communications
• Museum of History and Industry (Seattle, WA)
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
• Museum of Pop Culture
• Music and the Holocaust
• Music Information Center (Norway)
• Music Library of Greece
• Music Libraries of Iceland
• Mystic Seaport Museum
• Naropa University, Allen Ginsberg Library
• National Anthropological Archives
• National Archives and Records Administration
• National Archives and Record Service of South Africa
• National Archives (Czech Republic)
• National Archives of Atlanta
• National Archive of Australia
• National Archive of Brunei Darussalam
• National Archives of Canada
• National Archives of Estonia
• National Archives of Guernsey
• National Archives of the Philippines
• National Archives of the United Kingdom
• National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago
• National Audiovisual Institute (Poland)
• National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
• National Council for the Traditional Arts
• National Film and Sound Archive (Australia)
• National Film Video and Sound Archive (South Africa)
• National Gallery of the Spoken Word
• National Library of Australia
• National Library of Canada: Music and Performing Arts
• National Library of Finland, Music Library
• National Library of Jamaica
• National Library of Norway
• National Library of Sweden
• National Library of Serbia
• National Library of Wales
• National Museum of American History
• National Museum of the American Indian
• National Museum of Wales
• National Museums Northern Ireland
• National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
• Nature Sounds: California Library of Natural Sounds
• Nebraska State Historical Society, Audiovisual Archives
• Nepal National Library
• Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
• New Hampshire Folklife
• New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz
• New Hampshire Library of Traditional Music and Dance
• New Mexico State Archives
• New Music Online Library
• New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival and Foundation
• New Orleans Public Library
• New York City Municipal Archives
• New York Philharmonic Archives
• New York Public Library, Archives of Recorded Sound
• New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts
• New York Public Library, Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
• New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division
• New York Public Radio Archives (WNYC)
• New York State Archives
• New York State Historical Society
• New York University, Asian/Pacific/American Studies
• New York University, Tamiment and Robert Wagner Labor Archives
• Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
• Nordic Music Archive
• North Carolina Folklore Society
• North Carolina State Archives
• Northeast Mississippi Documentation Project
• Northern Illinois University, Music Library
• Northern Illinois University, Regional History Center
• Northwestern University, Music Collections
• Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound
• Norwegian Jazz Archive
• Oberlin College and Conservatory
• Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaft: Phonoarchiv
• Ohio State University, Bryd Polar Archives
• Ohio State University, Music/Dance Library
• Oman Centre for Traditional Music
• Open Society Archive
• Oregon Health and Science University
• Oregon Historical Society
• Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
• Oregon State University, Special Collections
• Pacifica Radio Archives
• Pacific Islands Museum/Pacific Heritage Network
• The Paley Center for Media
• Passim Folk Music and Cultural Center
• Peabody Awards Collection
• PennSound
• Penn State, Fred Waring Collection
• Phillips Academy, Clift Music Library, Andover College
• Poetry Archive
• Poetry Foundation
• Poet's House
• Polish Museum of America
• Popular Memory (South Africa)
• Portugal National Archives
• Portugal's Sound Patrimony
• Presidential Audio Video Archive
• Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center
• Princeton University, Scheide Music Library
• Pritzker Military Library
• Project SAVE
• Provincial Archives of Alberta
• Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island
• Puerto Rico General Archives
• Purdue Universities Libraries
• Queens College, Louis Armstrong Archives
• Queen's University, W.D. Jordan Special Collections & Music
• Radcliffe College, Schlesinger Library
• Radio New Zealand Sound Archives
• Refugee Action
• Research Center for Non-Violence
• Rice University, Brown Fine Arts Library
• Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Foundation
• Royal College of Music, RCM Library
• The Royal Library of Denmark
• RTE Libraries and Archives
• Russian Archives Online
• Rutgers University, Blanche and Irving Laurie Music Library
• Rutgers University, Institute of Jazz Studies
• Salem State University
• San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
• Sarasota Music Archives
• Seattle Municipal Archives
• Seychelles National Archive
• Shambhala Archives
• Sheriar Foundation
• Simmons College Library, Special Collections
• Skandia Folklore Dance Society
• Smith College Libraries, Music
• Smith College, Werner Josten Performing Arts Library
• Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
• Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
• Solar Wind Project
• Sound Portraits (Story Corps)
• South African Liberation Struggles Living Archive (PDF, 81KB)
• South African Music Archive Project
• Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Morris Library
• Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, National Ragtime and Jazz Archive
• Southern Oregon Historical Society
• Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
• Speech Accent Archive
• St. Edwards' University Archives, Silvestre Revueltas Collection
• St. Olaf College Halvorson Music Library
• Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound
• Stanford University, Monterey Jazz Festival Collection
• Stanford University, Special Collections and University Archives
• State Archive of Latvia
• State Historical Society of Missouri
• State Historical Society of North Dakota
• State Historical Society of Wisconsin
• State Library and Archives of Florida
• State University of New York at Buffalo, Music Library
• Sul Ross State University, Archives of the Big Bend
• Swathmore, Music and Dance Library
• Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images
• Swiss National Sound Archives
• Syracuse University, Belfer Audio Laboratory & Archive
• Tel-Aviv University, Archive of Israeli Music
• Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound
• Tennessee State, Library and Archives, Highlander Folk School
• Texas A&M University at Kingsville, South Texas Archives, Jernigan Library
• Texas Christian University, Mary Couts Burnett Library
• Texas Music Museum
• Texas State Historical Association, Center for Texas Music History
• Texas State Library and Archives
• Texas State University, Schneider Music Library
• Texas Tech University, The Southwest Collection
• Texas Tech University, Vietnam Center and Archive
• Thomas Edison National Historical Park
• Tibetan Studies Resource
• Toronto City Archives
• Tufts University, Lilly Music Library
• Tulane University, Jazz Archives (William Ranson Hogan)
• Turkey Music Portal
• Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Resources
• United Nations, News and Media Audio Library
• United Nations University
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Unity Costa Rica Audio Archive
• Universiteit Leiden
• University of Aukland
• University of Auckland, Archive of M─üori and Pacific Music
• University of Alabama, William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library, African-American History Resources
• University of Albany/SUNY
• University of Arkansas, Music Library
• University of Belize
• University of British Columbia, Audio Archive
• University of California, Davis Library
• University of California-Berkeley, Bancroft Library
• University of California-Berkeley, Media Resources Center
• University of California-Berkeley, Michael Foucault Audio Archive
• University of California-Berkeley, Music Library
• University of California-Los Angeles, Ethnomusicology Archive
• University of California-Los Angeles, Musica de la Frontera: Archive of Mexican-American Music
• University of California-Los Angeles, Music Library
• University of California-San Francisco, Tobacco Control Archives
• University of California-Santa Barbara, Cylinder and Digitization Project
• University of Cape Town, Centre for Popular Memory
• University of Chicago, Chicago Jazz Archive
• University of Cincinnati CCM Recording Archives
• University of Colorado at Boulder, American Music Research Center
• University of Colorado, College of Music
• University of Connecticut, Music and Dramatic Arts Library
• University of Dayton, Marian Music Archive
• University of Delaware, Morris Library
• University of Denmark, Jazz Collection
• University of Edinburgh, Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies
• University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
• University of Hartford, Allen Library
• University of Hawaii at Manoa, Library
• University of Houston, Music Library
• University of Idaho, International Jazz Collection
• University of Illinois, Advertising Council Archives
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Musicology
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Music Library)
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sousa Archive
• Universityof Iowa, Sounds of the Magnetosphere
• University of Iowa, Special Collections
• University of Kansas, Jazz Archives
• University of Kansas, Sound Archives
• University of Kansas, Special Collections
• University of Kentucky, Audio-Visual Archives
• University of Kentucky, John Jacob Niles Center for American Music
• University of Kentucky, School of Music
• University of Leeds, Bauman Institute
• University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies
• University of London, Center for Russian Music
• University of London, Goldsmith College, Music Library
• University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore
• University of Louisville
• University of Maine, Fogler Library
• University of Maine, Maine Folklife Center
• University of Manitoba, Archives and Special Collections
• University of Maryland, International Piano Archives
• University of Maryland, Library of American Broadcasting
• University of Maryland, National Public Broadcasting Archives
• University of Maryland, Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library
• University of Melbourne, Grainger Museum
• University of Memphis, Special Collections
• University of Miami, Larry Taylor-Billy Matthews Musical Theater Archive
• University of Miami, Special Collections
• University of Michigan, Music Library
• University of Minnesota, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
• University of Minnesota, Charles Babbage Institute
• University of Minnesota
• University of Minnesota, Music Library
• University of Mississippi, American Music Archive
• University of Mississippi, Blues Archive
• University of Missouri-Columbia, Sound Collection
• University of Missouri, Kansas City, Marr Sound Archives
• University of Missouri, Kansas City, Special Collections
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Music Library
• University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Music Library
• University of New Hampshire
• University of New Hampshire, Library of Traditional Music and Dance
• University of New Mexico, Navajo Studies Archival Collections (PDF, 128KB)
• University of New Mexico, Spanish Folk Music of Northern New Mexico & Southern Colorado
• University of New Mexico, University Libraries
• University of North Carolina, Southern Folklife Collection
• University of North Carolina-Greensboro, School of Music, Theatre and Dance
• University of North Texas, Special Collections and Jazz Studies Division
• University of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library
• University of Oklahoma, Political Communications Center
• University of Oklahoma, Western History Collection
• University of Oregon, Knight Library
• University of Otago, New Zealand, Department of Music
• University of the Pacific, Brubeck Institute
• University of Pennsylvania, Arabic Sound Archive
• University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife
• University of Pennsylvania, Otto E. Albrecht Music Library
• University of Pennsylvania, Schoenberg Center, Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Sound Archive
• University of Pittsburgh
• University of Pittsburgh, Center for American Music
• University of Puerto Rico
• University of Rhode Island, Special Collections
• University of Rochester, Special Collections
• University of South Carolina, Music Library
• University of South Carolina, School of Music, Center for Southern African American Music (PDF, 845KB)
• University of South Dakota, National Music Museum
• University of Southern California, Audio Archive
• University of Southern California, Gospel Music History Archive
• University of Southern Denmark, Jazz Collection
• University of Southern Maine, School of Music
• University of Sydney, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Texas at Austin, Benson Latin American Collection
• University of Texas at Austin, Center for American Music
• University of Texas at Austin, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
• University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center
• University of Texas at San Antonio, Institute of Texan Cultures
• University of Texas at San Antonio, Special Collections
• University of Toledo, Ward Canady Center
• University of Tulsa, Mcfarlin Library
• University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library
• University of Utah, Western Soundscape Archive
• University of Vermont, Special Collections
• University of Virginia, Faulkner at Virginia
• University of Virginia, Music Library
• University of Washington, Ethnomusicology Archives
• University of Western Australia, Callaway Centre
• University of West Florida, Music Library
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mills Music Library
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Folksong Collection
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Music Archives
• University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center
• Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre
• Utah State University, Fife Folklife Archives
• Valdosta State University, South Georgia Folklife Collection
• Vanderbilt University, Global Music Archive
• Vasser Library, Dickinson Music Library
• Vermont Folklife Center
• Vermont Music Library
• Virgin Island Public Library System
• Virgin Islands History
• Ward Irish Music Archive
• Washington University, Film and Media Archive
• Wayne State Reuther Library
• Weismann Institute of Science Archives
• Wende Museum
• Wesleyan University, World Music Archives
• Wessex Film and Sound Archive
• Western Australian Folklore Archive
• Western Folklife Center
• Western Illinois University, Music Library
• Western Sahara Audiovisual Database
• Westminister Choir College, Talbott Library
• Westminster Theological Seminary
• West Virginia State Archives
• Wheaton College, Billy Graham Center
• William Berman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum
• William J. Clinton Presidential Library
• WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
• Winthrop University, Music Library
• Wisconsin Center for Film and Theatre Research
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum
• Woody Guthrie Foundation and Archives
• Wyoming State Library
• Yale University Historical Sound Recordings Collection
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

In addition to the archives listed, other arts and music collections in the US and throughout the world can also be accessed via:

• Ethnographic Archives (CoPAR)
• German Music Guide
• Music Outfitters, Inc.

NOTE: This list does not purport to be exhaustive. To add a sound or music archive to this list, please e-mail its name and web address to: codell@loc.gov.