The British Library has made 28,000 rare recordings available free online.
The collection focuses on both traditional English music and recordings gathered from across the globe by British-based scholars.
The 2,000 hours of material ranges from a rendition of Any Old Iron in Birmingham, to performances by Ugandan royal musicians.
The recordings, which represent a fraction of the library’s audio archives, are available on its website.
International recordings range from the sounds of stamping tubes and nose flutes to recordings of African rumba, calypso and blues.
The British Library Sound Archive is one of the largest sound archives in the world and holds over one million discs and 200,000 tapes
This blog post and news release has details on the content that was just added to the collection.
Source: BBC
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