New Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
RILM Abstracts with Full Text just added eight more titles to its full-text journal collection. The…
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RILM at IASPM in Paris, 2025
RILM will participate in the 23rd biennial international meeting of the International Association fo…
RILM at IAML in Salzburg, 2025
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries,…
RILM at PASMAE in Kampala, 2025
RILM will attend, for the first time, the joint regional conference of the Pan African Society for M…
RILM at Teaching Music History Conference, 2025
RILM will participate in the Teaching Music History Conference at New York University, 20–22 June…
RILM at MELCom, 2025
RILM participated in the 46th annual conference of Middle East Librarians Committee (MELCom) Interna…
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Black Sabbath and Joy Division channel the sounds of industrialized England
Scholars have long drawn connections between urban life and specific music genres, especially heavy metal. The British bands Black Sabbath and Joy Div…
Pre-Columbian musical elements in the Veracruz region
The Veracruz region forms part of Mesoamerica—a broad geocultural area in Central America where diverse cultural traits developed and spread beginni…
Improvisation schemas and the Turkmen dutar
The Turkmen dutar is a long-necked, two-stringed lute distinguished by its pear-shaped resonating body and thin wooden soundboard. Both the body and s…
The Orpheus theme in opera
The Orpheus saga marked the birth of a new operatic genre and became a model for significant compositional reform. Raniero de Calzabigi, librettist fo…
Extra Fancy’s visceral queercore as discursive space
In 1996, Atlantic Records released—and almost immediately abandoned—a queercore album that boldly asserted a fiercely aggressive, macho gay male i…
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,…
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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.