RILM at Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context in Honour of Stephanie Merakos in Athens, 2025
RILM will participate in the conference Musicology and Music Librarianship in Cultural Context in Ho…
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RILM at NISO Plus in Baltimore, 2025
RILM will participate in this year’s NISO Plus conference held in Baltimore, Maryland, 10–13 Feb…
New Additions to RILM Music Encyclopedias
RILM Music Encyclopedias has just added three new titles into its continuously expanding collection…
RILM at ICTMD in Wellington, 2025
RILM will participate in the 48th world conference of the International Council for Traditions of Mu…
RILM at ADUIM in Bologna, 2024
RILM will participate in the 30th annual conference of the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari I…
Presentation of DEUMM Online in Turin, Italy
On Tuesday, 19 November 2024, at 4:30 pm CET / 10:30 am EST an event dedicated to the release of DEU…
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Capoeira and social justice
Capoeira, as a martial art, was created by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, it blends song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation, inspiring…
Music streaming and the datafication of listening
Along with the file sharing practices that preceded it, music streaming has dramatically transformed the music industry's business model, shifting it…
Katherine Dunham’s African diasporic dance aesthetics
African American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist Katherine Dunham used ballet and African diasporic movement traditions to develop a dance m…
Jose Maceda reimagines time
The Filipino ethnomusicologist and composer Jose Maceda created unique works that blended his fieldwork on Filipino and other music with his expertise…
Tin Pan Alley and early film music
From 1918 to 1928, Tin Pan Alley solidified its connection with the film industry. Although early films lacked sound, music played a crucial role in e…
Throbbing Gristle, industrial music, and civilization wrecking
In 1976, four artists from England—Genesis P-Orridge, Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson, and performance artist Cosey Fanni Tutti—formed Throbbin…
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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.