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The RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) just added 12 publications to its collection. The new titles are:

• La línea del arco. León: Luis Calvo, 1991–92.
• Mojo navigator. San Francisco: Mojo Publishing Company, 1966–67.
• Muchacha fanzine. San Antonio: Daisy Salinas,  2011–.
• Muchacha mini. San Antonio: Daisy Salinas,  2011–.
• New York rocker. New York: Alan Betrock/Andy Schwartz, 1976–84.
• Progression: The quarterly journal of progressive music. Lowell: John Collinge, 1992–2018.
• Rejoice!. Oxford: University of Mississippi, 1987–94.
• SCAM. Fort Lauderdale/Miami/San Francisco/Brooklyn: Iggy Scam, 1991–2016.
• Sea of tranquility. Louisville: Images and Words, Inc., 2000–01.
• 实验先锋 [Shiyan xianfeng/China avant-garde music fanzine]. Xi county: Xi Productions, 2011–15.
• Spiral. Madrid: Revista Spiral, 1993–96. ISSN 1134-0878
• Women in rock. Cincinnati: Izzy Krombholz, 2016–20.

These newly added titles reflect RILM’s international scope and mission of cultural preservation. With publications in Chinese, English, and Spanish, they document progressive rock, punk, avant-garde music and more across three continents, offering a global perspective on popular music scenes and artists of the last 60 years.  

RAPMM now comprises more than 135 independently published popular music magazines and fanzines dating from the late 1960s to the present day. This continually expanding collection of digitized and fully searchable publications serves as a valuable resource for multidisciplinary research into the history of global popular music and its relation to politics and society, underground scenes, stylistic shifts, feminism, iconography, and more.

RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines is available on RILM’s platform, Egret, at rapmm.rilm.org

RILM Abstracts with Full Text just added 11 more titles to its full-text journal collection. The new titles are:

• Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2002–. ISSN 2616-8979
• Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1955–. ISSN 0075-2681
• Journal of music theory and transcultural music studies. Isparta: Genç Bilge Yayıncılık, 2023–. ISSN 3023-7335
• Liszt journal: Jahrbuch der Liszt Akademie Raiding. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2024–. ISSN 3061-0451
• Lucrări de muzicologie/Musicology papers. Cluj-Napoca: Conservatorul de Muzică G. Dima, 2009–. ISSN 1222-894X/2068-8601 and eISSN 1222-894X/2285-0031
• Meshk journal of religious music. Istanbul: Istanbul University Press/İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2024–. eISSN 3062-0430
• Music cognition. Cluj-Napoca: MediaMusica, 2017–. ISSN 2601-3193 and eISSN 2601-3207
• Newsletter of the Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music. Newcastle-under-Lyme: Dvořák Society for Czech and Slovak Music, 1988–. ISSN 0000-0000
• Notes: Quarterly journal of the Music Library Association. Middleton: Music Library Association, 1934–. ISSN 0027-4380 and eISSN 1534-150X
• 音楽教育学 [Ongaku kyōikugaku]. Koganei: Nihon Ongaku Kyōiku Gakkai/The Japan Music Education Society, 1971–. ISSN 0289-6907
• Senfl-Studien. Wien: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2012–18. ISSN 2716-2534  

These new additions reflect RILM’s multidisciplinary, multilingual, and multinational scope. From Western art music and religious practices to psychological perspectives, theoretical approaches, pedagogy, and librarianship, they speak to a broad and diverse research community.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text also deepens its already formidable collection of exclusive content: The Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte; Liszt journal: Jahrbuch der Liszt Akademie Raiding; Senfl-Studien; and 音楽教育学 [Ongaku kyōikugaku] are now available in digital format for the first time—and only through RAFT.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature features citations, abstracts, and indexing for more than 1.8 million publications from the early 19th century to the present, covering  traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects. With cover-to-cover access to over 300 periodicals, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text builds on its standing as the most comprehensive international bibliography of writings on music. 

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