Collection & Distribution



Scholars have traditionally emphasized:
  • collection
  • preservation
  • analysis
Don Roberts (1991) suggested:
"The ultimate goal of those who collect ... music should be to enable the Native American people to have full access to their historical and contemporary documents."
Conventional distribution:
  • scholarly publications
  • sound recordings (e.g. Folkways)
New opportunities:
  • In the age of the Internet, the world-wide web provides an opportunity to disseminate information very broadly.
  • not entirely democratic: "digital divide"