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RILM Music Encyclopedias: New Additions for 2024
In January 2024, four new works will join the continuously expanding collection of historical and cu…
RILM in Medellín, 2023
RILM Editor Beatriz Goubert will be a featured speaker at the Seminario de Músicas Regionales, host…
RILM at IAML in Cambridge, 2023
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries,…
RILM at PASMAE in Cape Coast, 2023
RILM will attend, for the first time, the joint regional conference of the Pan African Society for M…
RILM at IFTR in Accra, 2023
Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will be in attendance at the 2023 congress of the Internationa…
New Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
RILM Abstracts with Full Text just added eleven more titles to its full-text journal collection. The…
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Featured image for post 'A Chinese painting in the Louis Armstrong House
A Chinese painting in the Louis Armstrong House
Louis Armstrong House and garden. Last year, I visited New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz music and the legendary Louis Armstrong (1901-1971). Kno…
Featured image for post 'Central America's vast dance and musical heritage
Central America's vast dance and musical heritage
The music of Central America tends to borrow heavily from the music of Mexico to the north, Colombia to the south, and the Caribbean Islands to the ea…
Featured image for post 'Peacebuilding, music, and ethnography
Peacebuilding, music, and ethnography
In many cases, procedural connections exist between musical experiences and ethnographic research methods to processes of peacebuilding--for example,…
Featured image for post 'The burning of musical instruments in Afghanistan
The burning of musical instruments in Afghanistan
Sometime during the last weekend of July 2023, previously confiscated musical instruments were collected and publicly burned in the Afghan province of…
Featured image for post 'Margaret Rosezarian Harris: Conductor, composer, musical director
Margaret Rosezarian Harris: Conductor, composer, musical director
Margaret Rosezarian Harris (1943–2000) was the first Black woman to conduct the orchestras of Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, and 12 other U.S. citie…
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Mike Seeger's influence on Bob Dylan
Mike Seeger in 1964 As a singer and multi-instrumentalist, Mike Seeger played an important role in the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Althoug…
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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.