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The Archives of Traditional Music
The Archives of Traditional Music is an ethnographic and popular culture media archive based at Indiana University, Bloomington, containing audio, moving image, photographic, paper, and material artifacts from around the world. Collections focus on the disciplines of ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, linguistics, oral history, and popular culture studies.

Scope and Holdings
The collections come from around the world. Rather than any particular geographic or generic focus, the collections are generally aligned with the academic fields of ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, folklore, linguistics, oral history, and popular culture studies. The Archives of Traditional Music holds over 100,000 recordings, beginning with phonograph cylinder recordings made in 1893. Its collections consist of ethnographic field recordings, broadcast recordings, and commercial recordings on a wide variety of formats.

Searching the Holdings
Holdings of the Archives of Traditional Music are cataloged at the collection level as MARC records within the Indiana University online library catalog, IUCAT. These can be searched through http://iucat.iu.edu. Using the "advanced search" capabilities of IUCAT, a user can restrict a search to only ATM Library holdings. Commercial recordings as well as many broadcast recordings are cataloged at the item level, which means there is one catalog record per physical item. Field collections, on the other hand, may consist of hundreds of records as well as photographs, field notes, and other materials.

History
The collections that became the basis of the Archives of Traditional Music began as a group of recordings managed by George Herzog at Columbia University and known as the Archive of Folk and Primitive Music. With encouragement from his teacher, Franz Boas, Herzog formed an archive for the purpose of research, consisting primarily of recordings made by Boas and other students and colleagues of Boas. At that time, the field recording formats available were wax cylinders and lacquer acetate discs. When Herzog was hired as an anthropology professor by Indiana University in 1948, he brought the collection with him. At that time, it consisted of approximately 10,000 recordings, about 6,000 of which were wax cylinders. The collections were formally incorporated by Indiana University in 1953, and George List was made its first official director.

Directors
George Herzog 1948 - 1953

George List 1953 - 1977

Frank Gillis 1977 - 1981

Ronald Smith 1981 -1982

Anthony Seeger 1982 - 1987

Ruth M. Stone 1987 - 1995

Gloria Gibson 1995 - 2000

Ruth M. Stone 2000 - 2002

Daniel Reed 2002 - 2007

Alan Burdette 2007 - present