RILM at IAML Deutschland, 2024
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the German group of the International Association…
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RILM at ARLAC in Mexico City, 2024
RILM will participate at this year’s 6th meeting of the IMS Regional Association for Latin America…
New Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
RILM Abstracts with Full Text just added ten more titles to its full-text journal collection. The ne…
RILM at IAML in Stellenbosch, 2024
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries,…
RILM at the ICTMD PASEA Symposium in Iloilo, 2024
RILM will participate in this year’s meeting of the International Council for Traditions of Music…
RILM at the Institut du Monde Arabe and UNESCO's 10th session of the General Assembly of the States Parties in Paris, 2024
Executive Director Tina Frühauf and Associate Editor Farah Zahra will be in Paris to meet RILM’s…
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Writing on music in Abbasid Baghdad: An annotated bibliography
The library of the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute) in Paris is home to an extensive collection of writings on music from the Arab world…
Lester Young, saxophone giant
The tenor saxophonist Lester "Prez" Young grew up in the New Orleans area, where his father led a family band that toured the country with tent shows.
Labor's troubadour
The musician and union educator Joe Glazer, known as "labor’s troubadour", made significant contributions to work and union songs through his compos…
Radiation songs of the Marshall Islands
On March 1, 1954, the U.S. military detonated Castle Bravo, its most powerful nuclear bomb, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Marshallese resid…
Helen Myers and East Indian music in Trinidad
Throughout her life, ethnomusicologist Helen Myers dedicated herself to exploring the connections between local East Indian music genres in Trinidad a…
Chicago's dynamic musical landscape
Chicago, the third largest in the United States, was not always the bustling metropolis it is today. It was originally a pristine prairie inhabited by…
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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.