BALLAD AND FOLKSONG
ENGLISH BROADSIDE BALLAD ARCHIVE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA - A great, searchable resource (even by woodcuts) site with ‘Visualisations’, some recordings and lots of links to other sites.
BALLADS ONLINE AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY- Broadside Ballads Online presents a digital collection of English printed ballad-sheets from between the 16th and 20th centuries, linked to other resources for the study of the English ballad tradition. A lot of texts, images and related resources.
http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
THE FULL ENGLISH PROJECT- The EFDSS calls its Full English site ‘The world’s biggest free digital archive of English traditional folk music and dance tunes’.
https://www.vwml.org/projects/vwml-the-full-english
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SCOTLAND ENGLISH BALLADS (AND SCOTS) - Organised by topic and searchable.
https://digital.nls.uk/english-ballads/archive/74472158
THE WORD ON THE STREET - Scots Broadsides
www.nls.uk/broadsides/index.html
THE BRITISH LIBRARY BALLAD AND FOLKSONG COLLECTIONS, ETC. - A lot, including world music, talks, interviews etc with musicians and folklorists. Held in various parts of the collection, including:
https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/ballads#
https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/world-and-traditional-music
https://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/
Unlocking Our Sound Heritage Project
JAMES MADISON CARPENTER COLLECTION - Important collection of British folk songs (and folk plays)
THE SONG COLLECTORS’ ARCHIVE - Spearheaded by Sam Lee, musician, folklorist and singer of nightingale songs, this site has a wealth of recently collected Gypsy, Traveller and other material, together with related resources
http://songcollectors.org/about/
THE TRADITIONAL BALLAD INDEX
This is an ongoing collaborative project ‘designed to help people find reference information on ballads’ and is described as ‘An annotated source to folk song from the English-speaking world’. It is an excellent resource that includes Australian as well as English language material from other countries.
https://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/BalladIndexDocs.html
ROUD FOLKSONG INDEX
https://www.vwml.org
THE MAX HUNTER COLLECTION OF OZARK MOUNTAIN FOLKSONGS
https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu
THE SOCIETY FOR ETHNOMUSICOLOGY site has plenty of resources, links, news and information on music and heritage research, archives, etc around the world
https://www.ethnomusicology.org/page/About_SEM
THE POLYPHONY PROJECT is a thoroughly up-to-date application of technology to the collection, archiving and dissemination of Ukraine’s rich singing traditions.
https://www.polyphonyproject.com/en
FOLKTALES
FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY ELECTRONIC TEXTS – D L Ashliman’s majestic collection of annotated, cross referenced and often translated folktale texts
https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
ISRAEL FOLKTALE ARCHIVES – ‘a unique, rich collection of more than 21,000 folk tales, based on Jewish oral tradition and Israeli folk narratives, and collected from more than 5,000 narrators from 70 ethnic groups in several languages, with documents dating from 1956 to 1999.
https://en.unesco.org/memoryoftheworld/registry/297
https://ifa.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/
GENERAL
LEEDS ARCHIVE OF VERNACULAR CULTURE - Including language and dialect, food and drink, working life (including tools, utensils, materials and methods), crafts, hobbies and pastimes, buildings/vernacular architecture, culture and tradition (folklore, music, drama and dance), customs and beliefs, material culture https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/collection/2571
CENTRE FOR ENGLISH TRADITION AND HERITAGE (CETH) - Language, customs, drama, children’s lore and more
http://www.centre-for-english-traditional-heritage.org/home.html
SCHOOL OF SCOTTISH STUDIES ARCHIVES
NORTHEAST FOLKLORE ARCHIVE - an internet resource established by Aberdeenshire Council for the study of the cultural heritage and traditions of Northeast Scotland.
http://www.nefa.net
NATIONAL FOLKLORE COLLECTION – including holdings of the Irish Folklore Commission
https://www.duchas.ie/en/info/cbe
CENTRE FOR ORAL HISTORY AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING - Explores the links between oral history, digital media, the arts and education.
https://storytelling.concordia.ca
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA has an extensive Ukrainian-Canadian program and resources
https://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/folkloreukraine/
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/uvp/
FOLKLORE AND LANGUAGE ARCHIVE - Connected with the Department of Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland
https://www.mun.ca/folklore/research/munfla/
SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR FOLKLIFE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE - Promotes greater understanding and sustainability of cultural heritage across the United States and around the world through research, education, and community engagement.
THE AMERICAN FOLKLIFE CENTER, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - Extensive archive and related activities established by the US Congress
WILLIAM A. WILSON FOLKLORE ARCHIVE – Latter-day Saints folklore colletion
https://lib.byu.edu/collections/wilson-folklore-archive/
OPEN FOLKLORE WEB ARCHIVE – large searchable collection of links to websites of archives and collections in north America
https://archive-it.org/collections/2843
AMERICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY NATIONAL FOLKLORE ARCHIVES – project to ‘document and provide access to information about folklore archival collections held by folklore programs at academic institutions, community-based cultural and ethnic organizations, non-profit organizations, and state government-based arts and cultural agencies in the United States’.
https://americanfolkloresociety.org/our-work/projects/national-folklore-archives/
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DIGITAL FOLKLORE ARCHIVES - A database of folklore performances
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOLKLORE ARCHIVES
https://folkarch.sitehost.iu.edu
THE FOLKLORE ARCHIVES - Denmark
https://www.kb.dk/en/find-materials/collections/folklore-archives
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR ETHNOLOGY AND FOLKLORE (SIEF) -links to mainly European Tradition archives, folklore archives, ethnographic archives, cultural archives
https://www.siefhome.org/wg/arch/archives.shtml
FOLKLORE – journal of the Folklore Society in Britain, 1890-1925.
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=folklorej
Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore, University of Louisiana Lafayette -searchable and listenable collection of field recordings
https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/ull-acc:collection
FOLKLORE CURATIONS
Sites by individuals and groups with an interest in preserving and sharing one or more aspects of folklore
FOLKLORE SCOTLAND
SUR LA LUNE – fairytales
https://www.surlalunefairytales.com
FOLKLORE THURSDAY
MAINLY NORFOLK – performance oriented information on British songs, artists etc with links to podcasts and radio programs
https://www.mainlynorfolk.info/folk/