New Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
RILM Abstracts with Full Text just added eight more titles to its full-text journal collection. The…
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RILM at IASPM in Paris, 2025
RILM will participate in the 23rd biennial international meeting of the International Association fo…
RILM at IAML in Salzburg, 2025
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries,…
RILM at PASMAE in Kampala, 2025
RILM will attend, for the first time, the joint regional conference of the Pan African Society for M…
RILM at Teaching Music History Conference, 2025
RILM will participate in the Teaching Music History Conference at New York University, 20–22 June…
RILM at MELCom, 2025
RILM participated in the 46th annual conference of Middle East Librarians Committee (MELCom) Interna…
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The improbable rise of Run the Jewels
In the history of rap music, the success of Killer Mike (Michael Render), a Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, and El-P (Jaime Meline), a white man from…
A new model for Italian music production
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Mongol and Han shamanic ritual music
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Brian Wilson’s good vibrations
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Bechara El-Khoury, composer and poet
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The complexities of underwater acoustics
The ecological importance of natural soundscapes is increasingly recognized, as their degradation may lead to biodiversity loss and disruptions in eco…
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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.