Organizations

National and international associations which deal with sound recording, sound archiving, and preservation.

Academy of Country Music
Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice
American Folklife Society
American Musicological Society
ASCAP
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
Association of Research Libraries
Audio Engineering Society (AES)
Australian Screen Sound Guild
Australian Sound Recordings Association (ASRA)
Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council (BAAC)
Bluegrass Foundation
Blues Foundation
BMI
Broadcast Education Association (BEA)
Canadian Antique Phonograph Society (CAPS)
City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society
Classical Music Education Foundation
Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations
Country Music Association
Country Music Foundation
Digital Media Association
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Foundation for Bluegrass Music
Gospel Music Foundation
Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation
Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA)
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML)
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)
International Center for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)
International Conference on Archives (ICA)
International Conferences on Music Information Retrieval and Related Activities Conference
International Federation of Library Associations
International Music Foundation
Jazz History Database
Joint Technical Symposium (JTS)
Lang Lang International Music Foundation
Media Communications Association-International
Music Library Association
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
National Religious Broadcasters
Opera Foundation
Optical Storage Technology Association
Performance Poetry Preservation Project, Inc.
Rachel Barton Pine Foundation
REC Music Foundation
Recording Industry Association of American
SESAC
Singout.org
Society for American Music
Society for Ethnomusicology
Societe francaise d'Ethnomusicologie
Society of American Archivists
Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE)g
UNESCO
World Music Foundation

Additional organizations, mainly musical in nature, can be accessed via:

http://www.musicoutfitters.com/musicorganizations.htm

NOTE: This list does not purport to be exhaustive. To add an organization to this list, please e-mail its name and web address to: codell@loc.gov.

Program National Recording Preservation Plan