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- ↑ UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World, accessed November 18, 2010.
- ↑ "The UNESCO collection of traditional music", Isobel Clouter, pp. 6-7, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2010-11-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)International Music Connection: Newsletter of the World and Traditional Music Section, British Library, #20, 2001.
- ↑ UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music of the World, accessed on line November 17, 2010.
- ↑ e.g., see review of "Anthology of World Music: The Music of Laos" by Alain Danièlou, review by Christopher Adler, Asian Music32, #2 (Spring-Summer 2001), pp. 200-203, JSTOR 834259.
- ↑ Smithsonian Folkways - UNESCO. Accessed on line Jan. 20, 2016.
