RILM at AMS–SMT in Minneapolis, 2025
RILM will participate in the joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Mus…
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RILM at SEM in Atlanta, 2025
RILM will participate in the 70th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Atlanta, Geor…
RILM at EBSCO Open Day in Turin, 2025
Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will be present at the EBSCO Open Day Torino on 22 October 202…
RILM at the Àgora Cívica and MONDIACULT in Barcelona, 2025
Executive Director Tina Frühauf will be present at various events in Barcelona, Spain, 26 September…
RILM at IMSEA in Nanning, 2025
RILM will participate at the eighth biennial conference of the International Musicological Society R…
RILM at IAML Deutschland in Dresden, 2025
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the German group of the International Association…
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Joan Jett's pacifier necklaces
Razorcake, one of the longest-running punk magazines in the world, has defied the odds to remain in print for over 21 years, releasing new issues bimo…
M.L. Vasanthakumari: A playback singer of Karnatak vocal pedigree
As a child, Indian playback singer M.L. Vasanthakumari--affectionately known as Vasanthi--dreamed of becoming a doctor, inspired by her belief that …
Intangible cultural heritage: An annotated bibliography
In celebration of UNESCO’s International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) on 17 October, RILM presents a selective annotated bibliograp…
Functions of the kidiu in East Malaysia
The kidiu (pictured above) is a unique aerophone in Malaysian folk music, specifically a bullroarer, which is a type of free aerophone that lacks an a…
Mambo’s enduring appeal
The mambo is characterized by short, syncopated rhythmic patterns--the saxophone typically sets the tempo, while the brass instruments carry the melod…
Cassettes as sound archives of the early Colombian punk scene
Cassette tapes played a pivotal role in democratizing music consumption, empowering independent creation and distribution--especially in genres like p…
About Us
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.