My presentation will describe the creation of the Smithsonian Global Sound project website, to assist archives around the world to digitize and preserve their collections, and to create an aggregation of these previously inaccessible audio holdings online. A major discussion will also be on the intellectual property concerns facing Global Sound, and the approach to equitable solutions.
Brown University's Department of Music hosted the first conference on Applied Ethnomusicology. Participants from Europe and the United States discussed various ways in which Ethnomusicologists work directly in and on behalf of communities outside of academia. This project provides streaming …