RILM will participate at the 67th national conference of the College Music Society, held from 7 to 9 November 2024 in Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, 7 November, at 5:30pm EST in Room Columbia D, Assistant Editor / Marketing & Media Coordinator Michael Lupo will give a short presentation at the RILM-sponsored reception Celebrating CMS Scholarship, which showcases recent publications by CMS authors. Michael’s talk will introduce RILM; highlight the value of its products for teachers, students, performers, and researchers; and reveal the top-reviewed pedagogy publications in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature from 2020 to 2021.

Additionally, on Friday, 15 November, from 3:30 to 4:30 EST, Michael will host “Teaching the art of the program note”, a post-conference virtual information session centered on best practices for writing a program note.

Michael will also be present at the RILM exhibitor’s booth throughout the conference. Please feel free to come by to ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. You can find more details on this event on the conference website, which also includes a link to the conference schedule.

RILM will officially release DEUMM Online on Wednesday, 30 October 2024, at 7:30 pm CET / 1:30 pm EST. Co-sponsored by the Associazione fra i Docenti Universitari Italiani di Musica (ADUIM) and IAML-Italia, the event will take place in the Teatro Palladium auditorium in Rome, Italy.

DEUMM Online digitizes, enhances, and extends the Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti (DEUMM), the most important modern music dictionary in the Italian language. Comprising a broad range of entries (persons, topics, dances, genres, geographical locations, institutions, instruments, and works), DEUMM Online uses advanced and intuitive search and translation functionalities. This venerable music encyclopedia, which has set the standards in modern Italian music lexicography, is, in its new online format, once again an indispensable node in a comprehensive, international, networked research experience.

The program will include Daniele Trucco’s DEUMM-inspired music, greetings from Luca Aversano (President, ADUIM), Marcoemilio Camera (President, IAML Italia), and Tina Frühauf (Executive Director, RILM), as well as presentations by Zdravko Blažeković (Executive Editor, RILM), Stefano Campagnolo (Director, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma), Alex Braga (composer), and DEUMM Online’s general editors Antonio Baldassarre and Daniela Castaldo. Pianist Giuseppe Magagnino will also perform works by Ellington, Beethoven, The Beatles, and more.

For those unable to join the Rome event in person, the event will be live streamed on the Fondazione Roma Tre Teatro Palladium’s YouTube channel.

DEUMM Online will also be featured again at the following events:  

• 19 November 2024: Turin, hosted by Istituto per i Beni Musicali di Piemonte at the Teatro Regio
• 21 November 2024: Milan, hosted by the Archivio Storico Ricordi in the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense

Hear more about DEUMM Online, and download the DEUMM Online brochure and logo.

Watch the DEUMM Online trailer (Italian)

RILM will participate at the 69th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, a fully virtual event held from 17 to 26 October 2024.

On Thursday, 17 October, at 12:30pm EDT, Editor Russell Skelchy will host the virtual session Workshop on Research Tools for Ethnomusicology: Navigating Bibliography, Historiography, and Ethnography. The workshop will be dedicated to developing research techniques with a focus on bibliography, historiography, online databases, and other research tools relevant to ethnographers and practitioners in the field of ethnomusicology, especially graduate students and junior scholars.

On Sunday, 20 October, at 7:00pm Editor Mu Qian will participate in the roundtable discussion Decolonization as Praxis in Chinese Music Research.  

In addition, Russ, along with RILM Assistant Editor/Marketing & Media Coordinator Michael Lupo, will be present at the RILM exhibitor’s booth throughout the conference. Please feel free to come by to ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. For more details on this event, please visit the conference website.