RILM at MOLA in Philadelphia
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Forthcoming Additions to RILM Abstracts with Full Text
This summer, RILM will add nine more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles are:…
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Performing Asian America: An annotated bibliography
The term “Asian American” refers to people of Asian descent who have settled in North America beginning in the mid-18th century. Encompassed withi…
David Byrne and performance
In a 2004 interview, David Byrne recalled “In hindsight I realize that at first I used to get onstage out of some desperate need—I was so painfull…
Rap as Mexican women’s protest
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Aurel Stroe and the Romanian avant-garde
In the 1960s Romanian culture had just escaped from communist control, and free expression was only recently permitted. Aurel Stroe represents the fir…
Athanasius Kircher’s global reach
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Playing at work: An annotated bibliography on music and labor
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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.