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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
ML100 .G16 1998 (Music Library Reference)
A comprehensive survey of world music organized in ten volumes by continent.
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Grove Music Online (part of Oxford Music Online)
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Considered to be the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music. Coverage includes biographies, musicology, world music, ancient and church music, theatre directors, and much more. Contains the full-text of the 29-volume print edition, with links to related web sites, including sound archives and illustrations. Updated quarterly and annually.

Online Indexes to Ethnomusicology Literature

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Academic Search Complete
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Provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated daily.
List of journals included.

Anthropology Plus
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Anthropology Plus combines the Anthropological Literature (from Harvard University) with the Anthropological Index (from the Royal Anthropological Institute). Gives extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
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Music Index Online (1979 - Current)
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Index to writings on classical and popular music, including scholarly and journalistic publications and reviews of books, recordings, and performances. Covers publications from 1979 to the present. Updated quarterly. See print edition for coverage of writings from 1949 to present.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1969 - Current)
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Includes references (most with abstracts) to scholarly writings, including books, articles, and dissertations from 1969 to the present in English and most European languages. Updated monthly.
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SocINDEX
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SocINDEX features more than 1,986,000 records with subject headings from a 19,600+ term sociological thesaurus sociology-specific thesaurus. Abstracts are included for more than 1,130 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, there is coverage for more than 430 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 2,800 "selective" coverage journals. Indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included, and cited references are also provided. All subdisciplines of sociology are covered.
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Related Library Resources

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Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses) (1861 - Current)
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Includes citations for dissertations dating from the first U.S. dissertation issued in 1861. Contains abstracts for dissertations from 1980 to the present and for master's theses from 1988 forward. The work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities are also included. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (1952 - Current)
Database of citations for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, and related disciplines.

Oxford Reference Online
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Contains entries from over 100 major discipline-related dictionaries and other publications from Oxford University Press. Coverage includes the sciences, foreign languages, art and architecture, politics, business, literature and more.
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PapersFirst (1993 - Current)
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Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide, covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting added to the The British Library Document Supply Centre's collection. Updated monthly.

Free Online Resources

General

About.com: World Music This is a link to another web site

Alan Lomax Collection This is a link to another web site(Library of Congress - American Folklife Center)

Alan Lomax Collection This is a link to another web site (Rounder Records)

All-Music Guide: Explore Music by Country This is a link to another web site

Center for World Music and Related Arts This is a link to another web site

Mathers Museum of World Cultures This is a link to another web site (Indiana University)

Mid-East Ethnic Instruments This is a link to another web site

National Geographic: World Music This is a link to another web site

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage This is a link to another web site

World Music Central: Your Gateway to the World of Music This is a link to another web site

 

Resource Pages on Ethnomusicology from other University Libraries

University of Washington This is a link to another web site

Indiana University This is a link to another web site

 

Periodicals, Journals & Online Publications

Asian Music This is a link to another web site - Journal of the Society for Asian Music [ JSTOR This is a link to another web site / EJC This is a link to another web site ]

British Journal of Ethnomusicology This is a link to another web site

Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology This is a link to another web site (University of Chicago Press)

Descarga Journal This is a link to another web site - Where Latin Music Lives

Dirty Linen This is a link to another web site - The Magazine of Folk, Electric Folk, Traditional and World Music

Discourses in Music This is a link to another web site (University of Toronto)

ePapyrus This is a link to another web site (Australia Asia Foundation)

Ethnomusicology This is a link to another web site - Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology  [ JSTOR This is a link to another web site ]

Ethnomusicology OnLine This is a link to another web site (hosted by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

European Meetings in Ethnomusicology This is a link to another web site

Music & Anthropology This is a link to another web site - Journal of Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean

The Music Magazine This is a link to another web site - India

Musical Traditions This is a link to another web site - "The magazine for traditional music throughout the world"

Ntama This is a link to another web site- Journal of African Music and Popular Culture

Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology This is a link to another web site (Department of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles)

Review of Popular Music This is a link to another web site (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music)

RootsWorld This is a link to another web site - Listening to the Planet

Transcultural Music Review This is a link to another web site (Sociedad de Ethnomusicología)

 

Professional Organizations

Association for Cultural Equity This is a link to another web site

British Forum for Ethnomusicology This is a link to another web site

European Seminar in Ethnomusicology This is a link to another web site

Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology This is a link to another web site

International Council for Traditional Music This is a link to another web site

New York Folklore Society This is a link to another web site

Sociedad de Ethnomusicologia This is a link to another web site

Société française d'ethnomusicologie This is a link to another web site

Society for Asian Music This is a link to another web site

Society for Ethnomusicology This is a link to another web site

Svenskt visarkiv This is a link to another web site (Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research)

 

Funding Sources

American Academy of Arts & Sciences This is a link to another web site

American Council of Learned Societies This is a link to another web site

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation This is a link to another web site

Fulbright Scholar Program This is a link to another web site

Internships at the American Folklife Center This is a link to another web site

National Endowment for the Arts This is a link to another web site

National Endowment for the Humanities This is a link to another web site

more ... This is a link to another web site

 

Sites by Geographic Region

Africa

African Music and Drumming Resources This is a link to another web site

African Music Archive This is a link to another web site

The African Music Encyclopedia This is a link to another web site

African Music on the Internet This is a link to another web site from Stanford University

Afropop Worldwide This is a link to another web site

Cora Connection This is a link to another web site (West African Manding music)

Global Music Archive This is a link to another web site from Vanderbilt University

Mbira This is a link to another web site (Mbira, Marimba and Chimurenga styles of music from the indigenous cultures of Zimbabwe)

West African Djembe and Dun Dun Drumming This is a link to another web site

 

Asia

Australia Asia Foundation This is a link to another web site

Australian Institute of Eastern Music This is a link to another web site

Batish Institute of Indian Music and Fine Arts Archive This is a link to another web site

Beat of India This is a link to another web site - the Folk Music of India

Bhangra: Punjabi Beats Go Global This is a link to another web site (Asia Source: AsiaTODAY)

Guqin Silk String Zither This is a link to another web site (John Thompson)

Indian Classical and Allied Performing Arts This is a link to another web site

Music of Tuva This is a link to another web site

Robert Garfias, University of California, Irvine

Asian Free Reed This is a link to another web site

The Bamboo Origins of Far Eastern Bridged Zithers This is a link to another web site

Gagaku Roots This is a link to another web site

Okinawan Music This is a link to another web site

Shakuhachi This is a link to another web site

Sursangam School of North Indian Music This is a link to another web site

Traditional Music in the Philippeans This is a link to another web site (Hans Brandeis)

Traditional World Music Recordings (T. M. McComb)

East Asian Music This is a link to another web site

Indian Classical Music This is a link to another web site

 

Latin America, South America & the Caribbean

Afromix This is a link to another web site - The portal of African & Caribbean Cultures

Candombe This is a link to another web site

Congahead This is a link to another web site

Cuban Music & Dance This is a link to another web site

Cuban Rumba Music This is a link to another web site

Cyber-Tango This is a link to another web site

Descarga.com - Links This is a link to another web site

Ernesto's Tango Page This is a link to another web site

LANIC Music This is a link to another web site - Latin American Network Information Center (University of Texas at Austin)

Music in Dominica This is a link to another web site

Música Popular Brasileira This is a link to another web site

Salsa & Merengue This is a link to another web site (Salsal & Merengue Society)

Salsa Stories: A Community History This is a link to another web site

Salsa2Salsa This is a link to another web site

World Samba Homepage This is a link to another web site

 

Middle East & Northern Africa

Arab Music This is a link to another web site (Dr. Ali Jihad Racy, San Diego State University)

Discography of Arab and Turkish Classical Music This is a link to another web site

Egyptian Music - Seven Millennia of Performance This is a link to another web site

Iranian/Persian Music This is a link to another web site (audio files)

Kurdish Music This is a link to another web site (Kendal Nezan, Kurdish Institute of Paris)

Middle East Music, Song and Dance This is a link to another web site (Al Mashriq)

Middle East Studies Association This is a link to another web site

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin This is a link to another web site

Music in the Afgan North, 1967-1972 This is a link to another web site (Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University)

Persian Classical Music This is a link to another web site (Duke University)

Playing a Middle Eastern Percussion Instrument This is a link to another web site (Jeff Senn)

Setar This is a link to another web site - Iranian Classical Music

Traditional World Music Recordings (T. M. McComb)

Iranian Classical Music This is a link to another web site

Other Near-Eastern Music This is a link to another web site

Turath.org This is a link to another web site

Turkish Music & Voice Library This is a link to another web site

 

Native American

Gathering of Nations This is a link to another web site

Great Lakes Powwows This is a link to another web site

Inuit Throat-Singing This is a link to another web site

Native American Indian Lakota Ceremonial Sacred Pipe Songs This is a link to another web site

Native American Sites This is a link to another web site (American Indian Library Association)

Omaha Indian Music This is a link to another web site (Library of Congress - American Folklife Center: American Memory Project)