RILM at the IASPM-US in Philadelphia, 2024
Data Coordinator Lindsey Eckenroth and Editor Beatriz Goubert will attend the annual meeting of the…
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Forthcoming Additions to RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
This summer, RILM Abstracts with Full Text will add ten more titles to its full-text journal collect…
RILM at the PCA/ACA National Conference in Chicago, 2024
RILM will participate in the 54th annual meeting of the Popular Culture Association and the American…
Towards Global Knowledge, Decolonization, and Preservation: Challenges and Opportunities Through Culture and Arts Education
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is honored to participate in the UNESCO Wo…
RILM at MLA Conference in Cincinnati, 2024
RILM would like to invite you to our lunchtime presentation at the 93d Annual Meeting of the Music L…
RILM at the 21st Panama Jazz Festival
RILM will participate for the first time at the Panama Jazz Festival, held in Ciudad de Panama, 15-2…
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Richard Taruskin: Musicologist, music critic, and interpreter of early music
Growing up in a liberal Jewish family, Richard Taruskin was encouraged by both his parents to regularly engage in intellectual political debate and mu…
Makmende, the Kenyan global pop icon superhero
The video for the song Ha-he by the Kenyan experimental pop music group Just a Band features a character named Makmende Amerudi as its protagonist. Wi…
Public Enemy brings the noise
Photo: Jack Barron Formed in Long Island, New York, the U.S. hip hop group Public Enemy emerged from a DJ sound system called Spectrum City DJs, fo…
Celebrating Tyagaraja ārādhana in South India
The social organization of musicians in South India is often reflected in the Tyagaraja ārādhana, the annual death-anniversary celebration in honor…
Nash The Slash reinvents classic rock
Electric mandolin and violin player and vocalist Nash The Slash (Jeff Plewman), whose name comes from the 1927 Laurel & Hardy movie Do detectives…
The corrido and Cesar Chavez
The corrido is a Mexican folk music that narrates a story or series of events in verse. The genre has developed in northern Mexico and the southwester…
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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.