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IMSLP is mostly made up of Western art/classical music but is that all the scope of the project is, genre-wise? Could I upload Chinese or Indian classical music? Folk songs? Contemporary popular music in the public domain?

Well, if nobody replies, look at http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Chinese_people, http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Indian_people, http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Folksongs and https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Modern_style

For the modern style, go to a few work pages at random and see if they are Creative Commons or if they are non-PD in part of the world. Hope this helps.

I saw the "folksongs" category but I wasn't clear if that would include (e.g.) Woodie Guthrie. I guess I can always just upload and see what happens. Thanks.

Hum, it has to be at least PD CA! What do you know about him? e.g. life dates.

coulonnus wrote:Hum, it has to be at least PD CA! What do you know about him? e.g. life dates.

At least some of his musical compositions are PD.

As long as it is PD, I'd actually encourage submission of non-classical material - variety is good and IMSLP is meant to include all public domain music, not just classical.