The Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv is part of the ethnomusicology collection of the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The collection’s early wax cylinder recordings, which were produced between 1893 and 1954 and today comprise some 16,000 original wax cylinders from almost all corners of the globe, paved the way for the now internationally acknowledged disciplines of comparative musicology and later ethnomusicology.
In cooperation with the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, historical recordings made between 1905 and 1934 in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru have been successfully digitised and made publicly accessible to a broad international audience in an open-access format via the digital collections of the Ibero-Amerikansiches Institut.
Contact persons: Prof Dr Barbara Göbel, Prof Dr Lars-Christian Koch, Dr Maurice Mengel
Cooperation partners: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and Ethnologisches Museum, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz