RILM at SEM, 2024
RILM will participate at the 69th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, a fully virtual…
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RILM Music Encyclopedias: New Additions for 2025
In January 2025, RILM Music Encyclopedias will welcome three new titles into its continuously expand…
RILM at IAML Deutschland, 2024
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the German group of the International Association…
RILM at ARLAC in Mexico City, 2024
RILM will participate at this year’s 6th meeting of the IMS Regional Association for Latin America…
New Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
RILM Abstracts with Full Text just added ten more titles to its full-text journal collection. The ne…
RILM at IAML in Stellenbosch, 2024
RILM will participate at this year’s meeting of the International Association of Music Libraries,…
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Intangible cultural heritage of China: An annotated bibliography
The 42nd session of the General Conference of UNESCO in November 2023 designated October 17 as the International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage (…
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
Brazilian pianist and bandleader Sergio Mendes began studying piano at a young age, continuing his education under Carmelita Lago. However, drawn to j…
Emotionality, music, and mental health
Recent research on personality indicates that trait negative emotionality, often referred to as neuroticism, is linked to how young people use music f…
La Argentina in the Philippines
In February 1929, the Spanish dancer Antonia Mercé Luque, better known as La Argentina, arrived in the Philippines during her groundbreaking internat…
Kris Kristofferson’s life in music
Kris Kristofferson stands out as one of the few entertainers to carve out distinct careers in both music and acting. A former Rhodes scholar, he becam…
Jazz in India
Arriving in India in the mid-1930s in search of performance opportunities and a better quality of life, African American jazz musicians significantly…
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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.