Our mission is to increase awareness of and support to Detroit’s imaginative musical heritage through advocacy and education in a spirit of vigilance and solidarity.

audio, video, interviews and more

non-western music, jazz in Britain, history of sound recording

print and manuscript resources related to colonialism

documents the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America from 1534 to 1850

draws upon manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland; focus on the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947

Helen Heffron Roberts (1888-1985) was an ethnomusicologist who did fieldwork in Jamaica, Hawaii, and the Rio Grande pueblos.

The Djibril Tamsir Niane audiorecordings comprise an oral history of Guinea. The recordings were made by noted Guinean scholar Djibril Tamsir Niane, primarily from 1969 to 1971.

The collection consists of videotapes and a small number of transcripts, log books, and publicity files relating to the television program South Africa Now , produced by Globalvision from 1988 to 1991.

ʻAli Kassār ̄ (1918-2004) is considered the founder of comedy theater not only in Egypt, but in the Arab world. He worked in the theater for about fifty years and performed in about thirty movies.