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**UNESCO Collection** is a [world music](/source/World_music) [record label](/source/Record_label), under the aegis of [UNESCO](/source/UNESCO). The full title of the series was *UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World*.

Starting in 1961, the label, created in collaboration with [Alain Daniélou](/source/Alain_Dani%C3%A9lou), has recorded and issued recordings of traditional world music. Its recording activity was mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. It was composed of a number of subseries of recordings: *[Musical Sources](/source/Musical_Sources)* (Philips 6586 001 — Philips 6586 045), *[Musical Atlas](/source/Musical_Atlas)* (EMI/Odeon), *[A Musical Anthology of the Orient](/source/A_Musical_Anthology_of_the_Orient)* (Bärenreiter/Musicaphon BM 30 2001 — BM 30 2032), *[An Anthology of African Music](/source/An_Anthology_of_African_Music)* (Bärenreiter/Musicaphon BM 30 2301 — BM 30 2314), and *[An Anthology of North Indian Classical Music](/source/An_Anthology_of_North_Indian_Classical_Music)* (Bärenreiter/Musicaphon BM 30 SL 2051 — BM 30 SL 2054; reissued by Rounder as CD 5101-5104.)[1][2][3] It was a pioneer in documenting authentic, traditional world music.

From the 1990s, titles were reissued by [Naïve](/source/Na%C3%AFve_Records)/[Auvidis](/source/Auvidis) under new subcollections, as well as some new issues and compilations. However, the partnership with Naïve/Auvidis ended in 2005.[4] Recently some titles have been reissued by [Rounder Records](/source/Rounder_Records).[5] From 2014 to 2015, [Smithsonian Folkways](/source/Smithsonian_Folkways) re-released the portion of the collection formerly released by Naïve/Auvidis, and also released 12 previously unpublished albums.[6]

## See also

- [UNESCO Collection of Representative Works](/source/UNESCO_Collection_of_Representative_Works), the equivalent for books
- [World music](/source/World_music)
- [List of record labels](/source/List_of_record_labels)

## References

1. Worldcat record, Anthology of World Music: North Indian Classical Music. Anthology of world music. Cambridge, Mass: Rounder Records, 1998. Sound recording, OCLC [39481660](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39481660).

1. [UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World](http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00123), accessed November 18, 2010.

1. "The UNESCO collection of traditional music", Isobel Clouter, pp. 6-7, ["Archived copy"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110810181303/http://21citizen.co.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/wtmusic/imcnewsletter/imcnewsletter20.pdf). Archived from [the original](http://21citizen.co.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/wtmusic/imcnewsletter/imcnewsletter20.pdf) on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2010-11-19. *International Music Connection: Newsletter of the World and Traditional Music Section*, British Library, #20, 2001.

1. [UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World](http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00123), accessed on line November 17, 2010.

1. e.g., see review of "Anthology of World Music: The Music of Laos" by Alain Danièlou, review by Christopher Adler, *Asian Music* **32**, #2 (Spring-Summer 2001), pp. 200-203, JSTOR [834259](https://www.jstor.org/stable/834259).

1. [Smithsonian Folkways - UNESCO](http://www.folkways.si.edu/unesco). Accessed on line Jan. 20, 2016.

## External links

- [UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World](https://web.archive.org/web/20040205190323/http://www.unesco.org/culture/cdmusic/index.shtml), archived catalog of the label, as of 2004
- [UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World](http://www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/unr.php), new planned releases as of 2004, at ICTM
- [UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World](http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00123), current page at UNESCO

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