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Featured Database: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
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Your next research rabbit hole could be waiting in this database: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
What’s in it?
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature offers an expansive collection of writings about music and contains publications from 184 countries, dating from the 19th century to present day. Much of the collection explores traditional and classical music, and recent additions have focused on ethnomusicology, popular music, and jazz studies.
Why should you use it?
This database provides access to over 300 music studies periodicals, as well as reviews, obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, and news articles in full text. The collection intentionally curates an interdisciplinary context for music studies and includes publications in a range of disciplines from dance studies to psychology.
Who should use it?
Anyone interested in the historical, social, and cultural contexts of music from around the world.
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