RILM at Teaching Music History Conference, 2025
RILM will participate in the Teaching Music History Conference at New York University, 20–22 June…
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RILM at MELCom, 2025
RILM participated in the 46th annual conference of Middle East Librarians Committee (MELCom) Interna…
RILM Releases the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM)
On May 27, 2025, at 4:30 pm, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, RILM will unveil its late…
New Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will add eight more titles to its full-text journal colle…
RILM at MLA, 2025
RILM will participate in the 94th Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association (MLA) held online…
RILM at Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context in Honour of Stephanie Merakos in Athens, 2025
RILM will participate in the conference Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context in Ho…
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Francis Bebey globalizes African music
The Cameroonian composer, writer, sculptor, and musicologist Francis Bebey was widely recognized as one of Africa's foremost songwriters. His talent,…
Montréal’s rich musical and intellectual life
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The Chilean guitarrón
The guitarrón, an instrument of central Chile, is known as one of the most complex stringed instruments in the Americas due to its unique string arra…
Selena shines in music, fashion, and design
Although Selena Quintanilla Pérez, better known as Selena, followed in the footsteps of pioneering Tejana (Texas-Mexican) women solo singers such as…
Asian American music teachers’ experiences
Asian Americans hold distinct positions across various professions, experiencing both significant underrepresentation in some fields and notable overr…
Riot grrrl zines: Translating experience into expertise
The rise of the riot grrrl movement can be traced to musicians and zine creators Tobi Vail, Allison Wolfe, Molly Neuman, and Kathleen Hanna--founders…
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Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) documents and disseminates music research worldwide. Known for its flagship publication, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, a comprehensive international bibliography of writings on music covering publications from the early 19th century to the present (also available with a full-text enhancement of over 200 journals), RILM produces the annually expanding full-text repository RILM Music Encyclopedias and the Index to Printed Music. RILM maintains its own user platform, Egret, with advanced search and browse capabilities on which it hosts the comprehensive encyclopedia MGG Online, and RILM Music Encyclopedias.