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British Library Ethnographic Cylinder Collection



Ethnographic music, songs, speech and calls from around the world, captured between 1898 and 1915 from Australia, India, Ireland, Pakistan, Scotland, the United Kingdom and Wales transferred from the British Library Cylinder collection.

(Sourced from the British Library)


Please note that the music on this page can only be streamed preferably this should be done through the British Library Sound Archive website we do not own the copyright to the material, in order to download our own Ambientscape Archive which is in the Public Domain please visit our Ambientscape Cylinder Archive link.




Source: The British Library Sound Archive

Ethnographic Cylinder British Library Collection


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145 Tracks


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Photo: Frances Demsmore recording Mountain Chief, elder of the Blackfeet Nation.










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