RILM will participate in the 2025 Teaching Music History Conference at New York University, 20–22 June 2025, organized by the American Musicological Society. 

On Saturday, 21 June, 9–9:30am EDT, Associate Editor Stella Li and Editor Ralph Whyte will give a joint presentation on the Global Music History panel entitled “Bibliodiversity in music history pedagogy: Expanding global perspectives through multilingual scholarship”. Ralph and Stella will discuss how non-English-language sources can enrich music history syllabi.  

To learn more about the event, go to the conference website, or read the program.

RILM participated in the 46th annual conference of Middle East Librarians Committee (MELCom) International, a hybrid event hosted by the Library of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris, 20–22 May, 2025. 

On Thursday, 22 May, 10:00–10:30am CET, editor Farah Zahra, along with Olga Andriyanova of the Institut du monde arabe (IMA), discussed outcomes from the three-year partnership between RILM and the IMA in a presentation entitled, “IMA’s library collections on Arab music: The IMA–RILM collaboration”.

To learn more about the event, head to the conference website, or peruse the program.

On May 27, 2025, at 4:30 pm, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City, RILM will unveil its latest product, the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM), at a special launch event titled Sites + Sounds + Scenes. 

The RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) is a continuously expanding digital collection that currently includes over 125 independently published popular music magazines and fanzines from the late 1960s to the present. This internationally scoped archive covers a diverse range of popular music genres, from punk and rock to indie, hip hop, and country, serving as a multilingual and interdisciplinary resource for music research. By preserving rare and historically significant publications, RAPMM safeguards essential elements of cultural heritage.

Accessible through RILM’s Egret platform, RAPMM offers advanced browsing, searching, and translation features across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices. Additionally, the platform provides a networked research experience, linking directly to other scholarly resources such as RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and external services like the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF).

RAPMM underscores RILM’s broader mission as an NGO accredited to provide advisory service to UNESCO’s Committee of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Speaking on the project’s significance, RILM Executive Director, Dr. Tina Frühauf, states:

In alignment with UNESCO’s initiatives to protect cultural diversity, RAPMM represents a vital node in an international effort to safeguard and preserve information about the sonic history of our times. It fosters community-centered archiving practices that foreground the lived experiences and material traces of popular music magazines. By bridging the analog and the digital, the local and the global, RAPMM not only preserves endangered media artifacts but also reimagines archives as dynamic spaces of cultural memory, equity, and engagement.

The launch event, hosted by The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation and RILM, is cosponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning. In addition to unveiling RAPMM, the event will also celebrate the release of two groundbreaking publications: Inside the Studio Spaces of Electronic Music Production: Berlin/Cairo by Dr. Matthias Pasdzierny and Gero Cacciatore, and Gear: Cultures of Audio and Music Technologies by Dr. Eliot Bates and Dr. Samantha Bennett. 

Held in the William P. Kelly Skylight Room on the 9th floor of the CUNY Graduate Center, the event will feature discussions with key contributors, moderated by Finn Cohen (The Sun). A reception will follow. 

Admission is free. Please RSVP to cmrd@gc.cuny.edu. The event will be live-streamed by the CUNY Graduate Center. 

For more information, please visit https://brookcenter.gc.cuny.edu/event/sites-sounds-scenes/.

This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will add 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.  

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliography of writings on music, featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects, enhanced with full text.

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 94th Annual Meeting of the Music Library Association (MLA) held online 17–21 March, 2025. 

On Monday, 17 March, 4:30-4:55 pm EDT, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković and Editor Beatriz Goubert will host RILM’s Exhibitor Spotlight. Zdravko will speak about RILM’s newest product, DEUMM Online, and Beatriz will discuss the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM), set to be launched on 27 May at The CUNY Graduate Center. The spotlight will conclude with a brief Q&A session.

To learn more about RILM products or to share feedback, please visit Liz Martin-Ruiz, Ian McGorray, and Jackie Santos, who will be available live through the Exhibit section of the Cvent app. Through this platform, attendees can also view videos and materials related to all of RILM’s products, as well download information about updates. 

Feel free to drop by the RILM virtual exhibitor booth or make an appointment by contacting subscriptions@rilm.org. And for details on the event, head to the conference website, or peruse the program. 

We look forward to seeing you soon!

RILM will participate in the conference Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context in Honor of Stephanie Merakos, organized by the IMS Study Group Music and Cultural Studies and The Friends of Music Society Athens. The event will be held in Athens, Greece, 20–21 February 2025.

On Thursday, 20 February, at 11:00am local time, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will give his paper “Francesco Bianchini’s designs of angels: Musicians for the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano”. Later that day, at 5:30pm local time, Zdravko will chair Stephanie Merakos’s keynote address. RILM is profoundly grateful for all the work that Merakos has done as chair of the Greek committee for the past 25 years.

Please feel free to stop Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. And for details, including the conference schedule and program, please visit the “L.Voudouri” Music Library of Greece website.

RILM will participate in this year’s NISO Plus conference held in Baltimore, Maryland, 10–13 February 2025.

On Wednesday, 12 January, 10:45am–12:00pm EST, Executive Director Tina Frühauf will chair the panel Metadata, Preservation, and Digital Futures Across Cultural Heritage in Room Laurel AB. Tina will be joined by fellow discussants Kimberly Graham, Michael Stewart, and Benjamin Kynsak to address topics surrounding how metadata can better serve as an important layer for digital safeguarding and the preservation of cultural heritage.

Please feel free to stop Tina and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. Head to the event details page on the conference schedule to learn more.

RILM Music Encyclopedias has just added three new titles into its continuously expanding collection of historical and current reference texts:

• Sokol Shupol, ed. Biographical dictionary of Balkan composers (Tirana: Asmus, 2005) 704 p. In English.
• Ilan Stavans, ed. Latin music: Musicians, genres, and themes (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2014) 2 vols., xix, xiv, 923 p. In English.
• David Damschroder and David Russell Williams. Music theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A bibliography and guide (Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1990) xliii, 522 p. In English.

The 2025 additions showcase the broad, international scope that is a hallmark of RILM Music Encyclopedias’ subject-specific, full-text coverage. The Biographical dictionary of Balkan composers shines a much needed light on often underrepresented musicians from the region, while Latin music offers insight into the histories, movements, and transformations of the music of Latin America. Both reveal important elements of their respective subjects’ cultural heritage. Music theory from Zarlino to Schenker explores the changing assumptions and musical practices that have guided Western art music theories across over 500 years.  

RILM Music Encyclopedias can be accessed via EBSCOhost and on RILM’s platform Egret at rme.rilm.org.

For further information, please email encyclopedias@rilm.org

RILM will participate in the 48th world conference of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) held in Wellington, New Zealand, 9–15 January 2025.

On Saturday, 11 January, 5:00–6:30pm NZST, Executive Director Tina Frühauf and Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will lead a workshop on research techniques and bibliography in Room T1. The workshop will consider how ethnographers and practitioners in ethnomusicology and dance studies–especially graduate students and other junior scholars–can navigate databases, reference works, and other research tools. The topic of abstract writing may be covered as well. 

Please feel free to stop Tina or Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. Learn more about this event on the conference website.

RILM will participate in the 30th annual conference of the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari Italiani di Musica (ADUIM), held in Bologna, Italy, 12–14 December 2024.

On 12 December, 5:30pm CET, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will appear on the roundtable La Ricerca Oggi nel Contesto Internazionale (Contemporary Research in an International Context), where he will discuss RILM’s dissemination of scholarship from Italy, as well as the recently launched DEUMM Online.

Please feel free to stop Zdravko and ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. Learn more about this event on the conference website.