Contemporary sound, audiovisual and photographic documentation of Polish musical traditions

Latest recordings of the oldest songs - the latest chapter in the history of traditional music.
A high-quality resource of digital sound, movie and photography recordings.
The youngest corpus of sources complementing the largest and oldest ethnophonographic collection in Poland - Zbiory Fonograficzne in the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences together with the collections gathered on www.etnofon.pl.
The collection covers the full territorial (regional) scope of Poland and includes a wide spectrum of repertoire - from the oldest recorded songs and melodies through their numerous variants to the present day.
Taking into account 19th-century written sources, ethnomusicology and related humanities gain a kind of "stratigraphic" map of Polish folk song and music by gathering in one collection and in one digital repository documentation recorded in Poland from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. It's a best disclosure of changes in the temporal and territorial context.