Sudanese Folklore & Traditional Music Archives to be Digitized
The University of Khartoum’s Institute of African and Asian Studies has finalized a project assessing the needs to safeguard the collection of Folklore and Traditional Music Archives of the University of Khartoum. The collection will be preserved and digitized with aid from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund. The Folklore and Traditional Music Archives constitute a valuable collection containing more than 3,000 audio recordings and photographs of traditional Sudanese music collected since 1963 through many research initiatives on folklore and oral traditions of diverse Sudanese communities.
UNESCO Resources on Intangible Cultural Heritage:
2003 Convention for the Safegurading of the Intangible Cultural Heritage - 2012 edition (Downloadable in: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish)
Identifying and Inventorying Cultural Heritage (Downloadable in: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Aymara, Estonian, Guarani, and Vietnamese)
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