Future Plans

Dulcimer Archive

The Dulcimer Archive will include streaming audio files of historic handmade dulcimers with documentation for each instrument including photos, measurements, maker, date, and provenance of construction. Interviews and impressions of the instruments from a player’s point of view will also be included as well as information and links to dulcimer resources. Forthcoming in 2008.

Collier Tango Archive

The Simon Collier collection includes materials used by Simon Collier, Professor of History at Vanderbilt prior to his death in 2003, to research the Argentinean dance, the  Tango. Simon Collier was one of the world’s leading authorities on Latin-American popular music, in particular, the Tango. Materials that will be digitized for inclusion in the Global Music Archive include cassette tapes, correspondence, research notes and images. Forthcoming in 2010.
 
Mexican Indigenous Archive

This archive will include sound recordings and liner notes that are part of a project by Vanderbilt ethnomusicologist Helena Simonett. Her ongoing project focuses on ceremonial music making/dancing among indigenous people (Mayo-Yoreme) of northwestern Mexico, a farming region heavily affected by modern agricultural technologies. Globalization (more specifically, the North American Free Trade Agreement) is transforming the lives and cultural practices of indigenous communities in this area. This archive will include sound recordings that have been made for the musician’s use and liner notes created by Simonett for use by researchers. Forthcoming in 2009.