The Indiana University Archives of Folk and Primitive Music [Part 1]

Abstract

The Archives of Folk and Primitive Music was founded by George Herzog at Columbia University in 1936. It was modeled to ,some extent upon the Phonogramm-Archive of the Psychological Institute of the University of Berlin where Herzog had acted as Erich von Hornbostel's assistant during the years 1922-24. With Herzog's appointment as Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in 1948 the Archives was transferred to that institution. Upon the establishment of the Indiana University Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics , the Archives was transferred from the Department of Anthropology to the Research Center. The present Director of the Archives, George List, was appointed in 1954.