RILM will participate in the joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, 6–9 November 2025. 

On Thursday, 6 November, at 5:00pm CDT, Editor Stella Li will present her research in a paper titled “Jazz queens in women’s magazines: Negotiating femininity in occupied Japan” as part of The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan panel. Also on Thursday, 4:00–5:30pm, Editor Ralph Whyte will chair the panel Cultural Imaginings in Global Organology. 

On Friday, November 7, 10:45am–12:15pm, Executive Director Tina Frühauf will chair the panel In the Shadow of the Holocaust. That evening, 6:00–8:00pm, RILM and RIPM will host a joint reception for all conference attendees.

On Saturday, 8 November, 9:00–10:30am, Stella will chair the panel Cultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music. That afternoon, 2:15–3:45pm, Ralph will lead a workshop on research techniques and bibliography. The workshop will consider how music scholars–especially graduate students and other junior scholars–navigate databases, reference works, and other research tools. Finally, later that day, 4:00–5:00pm, Stella will lead a workshop on abstract writing titled Mastering the Art of the Abstract. 

Throughout the conference, RILM staff can also be found at the RILM booth in the exhibition hall. Stop by to learn more about all of RILM’s resources. 

And for more details on this event, please visit the conference website on which you’ll find the conference schedule.

RILM will participate in the 70th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Atlanta, Georgia, 23–26 October 2025.

On Thursday, 23 October, at 8:00am local time, Editor Beatriz Goubert will present her paper “Scenes behind the zines: Global music connections in the pre-Internet era”, which features an analysis of some of the 1980s popular music fanzines in the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) digital archive.

On Thursday, 23 October, at 4:00pm local time, Editor Stella Li will present her research in a paper titled “Jazz queens in women’s magazines: Negotiating femininity in occupied Japan” as part of The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan panel.

On Friday, 24 October, at 4:00pm EDT, Editor Russell Skelchy will conduct a workshop titled Research Tools for Ethnomusicology: Navigating Bibliography, Historiography, and Ethnography. The workshop will be dedicated to developing research techniques with a focus on bibliography, historiography, online databases, and other research tools relevant to ethnographers and practitioners in the field of ethnomusicology, especially graduate students and junior scholars.

RILM staff will also be present at the RILM booth in the exhibition hall throughout the conference. Stop by to learn more about all of RILM’s resources. We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!

View the full conference schedule here.

Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will be present at the EBSCO Open Day Torino on 22 October 2025. Held at the Palazzo Reale, this year’s meeting is dedicated to the theme The 2030 Agenda for a Sustainable Future. It provides a forum through which to reflect on the challenges and opportunities related to sustainability and the strategic role that academic libraries, businesses, government agencies, research institutions, and international publishers are called upon to play. Zdravko will be joined by DEUMM Online General Editor Daniela Castaldo.

Executive Director Tina Frühauf will be present at various events in Barcelona, Spain, 26 September–1 October 2025. She will first join the Àgora Cívica, a civil society forum to MONDIACULT that convenes debates and exchanges on cultural rights, cultural and language diversity, technologies and artificial intelligence in culture, culture and peace, cities and the role of culture in sustainable development, and cultural ecosystems and governance models. She will attend the Fair Culture pre-event (during which the German Commission will present the Fair Charter). She will then take part in MONDIACULT 2025, the world’s leading conference on cultural policies and sustainable development, addressing themes such as cultural rights, digital technologies in the cultural sector, culture and education, the economy of culture, climate action, and heritage in times of crisis, with special focus on Culture for Peace and Artificial Intelligence & Culture. Across all events, Dr. Frühauf will represent RILM in discussions, presentations, and forums that resonate with the organization’s mission—particularly in digitization, access to cultural heritage, and the intersections of scholarship, archival practice, and digital technologies—while engaging with international peers and decision-makers on the future of culture, sustainability, and inclusion.

RILM will participate at the eighth biennial conference of the International Musicological Society Regional Association for East Asia (IMSEA) in Nanning, China, 19–21 September 2025.

The aim of IMSEA is to provide a forum for exchanges among music researchers in the region, regardless of their areas of specializations and subjects of studies.

On Saturday, 20 September, 2:00–2:30 pm local time, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will present his paper “Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung 沈福宗 and his sheng” on the panel Transmission and Adaptation of Instruments.  

Please feel free to find Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or say hello. For more details on this event, please visit the conference website on which you’ll find the conference schedule.

RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the German group of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres (IAML) in Dresden, Germany, 16–19 September 2025.

This event represents the group’s annual working and training conference for professionals from all areas of the German music library system.

On Wednesday, 17 September, at 1:00 pm local time, Editor Georg Burgstaller will give a presentation on RILM’s newest product, the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines. 

In addition, Georg will be present at the RILM exhibitor’s booth throughout the conference. Please feel free to come by to ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. You can find more details on this event on the conference website, which includes the conference schedule.

In January 2026, RILM Music Encyclopedias will welcome significant additions to its expanding collection of historical and current reference works:

• Igor de Gandarias, Diccionario de la música en Guatemala (rev. ed.; Ciudad de Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, 2024) xv, 193 p. — In Spanish.
• Frank Daykin, Encyclopedia of French art song: Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Poulenc (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 2013) vi, 739 p. — In English.
• Hugo Riemann, ed., Musik-Lexikon (5th edition; Leipzig: Max Hesse’s Verlag, 1900) xxiii, 1284 p. — In German.

These titles underline RILM Music Encyclopedias’s hallmark of offering comprehensive, international, subject-specific coverage through full-text content. 

The Diccionario de la música en Guatemala is the first reference work dedicated to the nation’s diverse musical traditions, encompassing Indigenous, colonial, and contemporary influences. The Encyclopedia of French art song provides an in-depth exploration of individual mélodies by Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc, bridging performance practice with scholarly research. Complementing these region- and genre-specific volumes is the fifth edition of Hugo Riemann’s Musik-Lexikon; this edition joins the eleventh (edited by Alfred Einstein). Together, these additions highlight RILM Music Encyclopedias’ critical role in preserving, contextualizing, and deepening global understandings of musical traditions and its historiography. 

RILM Music Encyclopedias is available via EBSCOhost and on RILM’s platform, Egret, at rme.rilm.org.

For further information, please contact encyclopedias@rilm.org.

RILM will participate in the international workshop Digitize. Transform. Inspire: Shaping the archives of tomorrow in Vienna, Austria, 1–2 September 2025.

Executive Director Tina Frühauf will be in attendance to collaborate with attendees from all continents looking to explore how digital archives can be unlocked through digitization, innovative technologies, and cross-sector partnerships.

RILM Abstracts with Full Text just added eight more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles are:

• Българско музикознание [B”lgarsko muzikoznanie/Bulgarian musicology]. Sofiâ: B”lgarskata Akademiâ na Naukite, Institut za Izkustvoznanie, 1977–. ISSN 0204-823X
• Canadian winds/Vents canadiens: Journal of the Canadian Band Association/Revue de l’Association canadienne des harmonies. Toronto: Canadian Band Association/Association Canadienne de l’Harmonie, 2002–. ISSN 1703-5295
• Fontes artis musicae. Madison: A-R Editions, 1954–. ISSN 0015-6191
• 関渡音樂學刊 [Guandu yinyue xuekan]/Kuandu music journal. Taibei: Guoli Taibei Yishu Daxue/Taipei National University of the Arts, 2004–. ISSN 1814-1889
• Journal of Christian musicology. Ilé-Ifẹ̀: Obafemi Awolowo University, 2020–. ISSN 2782-8433
• Liuteria, musica e cultura: Organo ufficiale dell’Associazione liutaria italiana. Cremona: Associazione Liuteria Italiana, 2006–. ISSN 1825-7054
• Studi musicali. Firenze: Leo S. Oschki, 1972–2009. ISSN 0391-7789 and eISSN 2037-6413
• Studien zur Musikwissenschaft: Beihefte der Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2017–. ISSN 0930-9578

These additions exemplify RILM’s commitment to providing full-text content that is truly international in scope, with coverage that embraces a diversity of languages, nations, subject matter, and approaches to music research.

B”lgarsko muzikoznanie/Bulgarian musicology, the Journal of Christian musicology, and Liuteria, musica e cultura exist in a digital format only in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text. And B”lgarsko muzikoznanie and the Kuandu music journal are published in countries that are represented in RAFT for the first time: Bulgaria and Taiwan, respectively.

If you do not already subscribe to RILM Abstracts with Full Text, get in touch with your EBSCO sales representative, or email information@ebsco.com.

RILM will participate in the 23rd biennial international meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) in Paris, France, from 7 to 11 July 2025.

On Monday, 7 July 2025, at 12:00 pm CEST/6:00 am EDT, Tina Frühauf, RILM’s Executive Director, along with Beatriz Goubert and Lindsey Eckenroth—RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM)‘s Product Coordinator and Data Coordinator, respectively—will deliver a keynote presentation on RAPMM. The presentation will address RILM’s coverage of popular music studies; the organization’s commitment to safeguarding and preservation; and the history, curatorial process, and technology behind RAPMM.

Please feel free to find any of us and ask questions, provide feedback, or say hello. For more details on this exciting event, please visit the conference website on which you’ll find the conference schedule.