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27 October has been proclaimed as World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by UNESCO’s General Conference to raise awareness of the importance of audiovisual documents and to draw attention to the urgent need to protect them.

27 October has been proclaimed as World Day for Audiovisual Heritage by UNESCO’s General Conference to raise awareness of the importance of audiovisual documents and to draw attention to the urgent need to protect them.

The ARChive of Contemporary Music, along with Columbia University, the Internet Archive and Gracenote, is initiating a series of World Music Days, and the first one will be Muslim World Music Day set for April 12, 2011. We invite artists, promoters, radio stations, bloggers, journalists, libraries, archives, collectors, cultural organizations, and venues to participate. The goals is a series of concerts, seminars, lectures, talks and the creation a database of all known recordings and links to all relevant information on a global scale.