Produced in collaboration with a Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings editorial board of scholars, this thirty DVD, 1 CD-ROM with 9 printable, searchable and copy-permission books collection contains over 500 performances and 1200 pages of text from 70 countries. The books contain full glossaries, detailed descriptions, and individual essays on the social, cultural, and historical background of the music, dance, instruments, costumes and rituals. They also include maps, charts, photos, and a complete cross-reference index.  

 

East Asia I - Korea II - Korea 2 III - China 1 IV - China 2 V - China 3	Southeast Asia I - Vietnam & Cambodia II - Thailand & Myanmar (Burma) III - Malaysia & Phillipines IV - Indonesia (Bali) V - Indonesia (Bali & Java)	South Asia I - India 1 II - India 2 III - India 3 IV - Pakistan & Bangladesh V - Sri Lanka, Nepal & Bhutan	Middle East/Africa I - Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon & Qatar II - Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Mali, Cameroon, Zaire & Tanzania III - Chad & Cameroon IV - Ivory Coast, Botswana & S. Africa
Europe I - France, Switzerland, W. Germany, Spain, Italy & Greece II - Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Poland III - Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria & Albania	The Soviet Union I - Russia II - Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Belorussia, Ukraine & Moldavia III - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Dagestan & Russian Gypsies IV - Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Kirgiz, Kalmyk, Bashkir & Siberia	The Americas I - North American Indian & Inuit (Eskimo) II - Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Bolivia & Argentina	Oceania I - Micronesia, Saipan, Melanesia (Papua New Guinea & New Caledonia) II - Polynesia (Tahiti, Marquesas, W. Samoa, etc.) & New Zealand