Research by Subject: Ethnomusicology
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ABSEES American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies. Also includes Eurasian Studies. Provides information on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. The majority of content originally published in the US and Canada. 1939 - present. See also the European version EBSEES. Note: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
America: History & Life Major index to articles and books on history (from prehistoric times to current period) of United States and Canada. 1964 to current. 
Arts and Humanities Search Indexes leading arts and humanities journals worldwide. Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current. Previously Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Indexes mainly western language publications on all parts of Asia and all subjects. 1971 - present online. 1941 - 1970 available in print. Main Library Reference DS5 .A1
Dirty Linen Folk and World Music
ERIC Database ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, containing more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.
Ethnomusicology Online Peer-Reviewed online journal.
HAPI- Hispanic American Periodicals Index Indexes journals, book reviews, and documents in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Hispanics in the U.S. Go shortcut = go/hapi
HLAS-Handbook of Latin American Studies Indexes journals, books, documents, and reports on Latin America with good coverage of Latin American publications from 1935 to current. Search in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. Go shortcut = go/hlas
JSTOR Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off-campus).
Latin American Database Full-text articles from contemporary Latin American and Mexican publications. Click on search.
MLA Bibliography The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
Music and Anthropology Journal of Mediterranean Musical Anthropology
Music Education Resource Base MERB/CMI is a bibliographic database of more than 31,000 resources in music and music education from 35 Canadian and International journals and other sources covering the period 1956 through the present. The journals are fully indexed by title, author, and subject.
RootsWorld Listening to the planet.
Social Sciences Citation Index Indexes core scholarly social science journals worldwide. Search by cited authors or works, or search by words in the bibliographic citations. Go shortcut = go/wos Note: access through Web of Science
Society for Ethnomusicology SEM is a U.S.-based organization with an international membership of over 1800 individuals dedicated to the study of all forms of music from diverse humanistic and social scientific perspectives.
Trans Journal of the Sociedad de Etnomusicologia
African Music Encyclopedia sponsored by Africanmusic.org
African Presences I: Music in Africa Library resource guide complied by Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) 
Afromix.org The Portal of African and Caribbean Cultures. News, music, arts and culture, society, travel, events.
Cambodian Music Includes information about instuments and history of Cambodian Music.
Ceolas Home of celtic music on the internet, since 1994. Ceolas houses the largest online collection of information on celtic music, and has links to hundreds of related sites
China: Classical Instrumental Music Describes the instruments used in Classical Chinese Music.
Chinese Music & Theater East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Sources
Cora Connection The leading resource for the Kora and Manding Music -- online since 1996
Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection From the University Of Washington.
Indian Classical Music Written and maintained by Todd M. McComb.
Indonesian Gamelan SEAsite Indonesia: Arts & Culture
Internet Chinese Music Archive Site with links to Chinese Music.
Oddmusic Oddmusic is home to unique, odd, ethnic, experimental and unusual musical instruments and resources
Omaha Indian Music from the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s.
Sunil Mukhi's Indian Music Page Information and explanation of Indian music.
Virtual Instrument Museum Online Museum of Musical Instruments host by Wesleyan University, Middletown CT.
Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University) Established in 1991, the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. Our collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and contemporary hip hop. The AAAMC also houses extensive materials related to the documentation of black radio.
African American Song 16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from the Library of Congresss historical collection, includes jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, narratives and other genres.
Contemplations from the Marianas Trench Music and Deep Thoughts (Anglo-Irish folk music and Child Ballads)
Grinnell College Music Instrument Collection Images and sound files for a variety of musical instruments.
Smithsonian Global Sound Audio collection of the world's musical and aural traditions--including spoken words and natural and human-made sounds--from recordings of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and other labels.
Ukranian Folklore Sound Recordings Natalie Kononenko, Ukrainian Folklore Centre, University of Alberta
Traditional Ballad Index An annotated bibliography of the folk songs if the English-speaking world.
Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians Ref ML105.S7 Note: Print Resource
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Bruno Nettl, Ruth Stone, et al. 10 vols. New York: Garland and Routledge, 1998. Note: Print resource
Ref ML100.G16 1998
Each volume of this work is devoted to a different region of the world and contains signed articles on different aspects of the music of that region. A compact disc accompanies each volume illustrating the music.
Folk Music Index to Recordings by Jane Keefer
Dissertation Abstracts Online Dissertation Abstracts Online is a subject, title, and author guide to American doctoral dissertations and masters theses from 1861 to the present, Canadian, British and European dissertations from 1988 to the present. Abstracts are included for entries after 1980
Doctorial Dissertations in Musicology -- Online Thomas J. Mathiesen and Nicholas M. Butler, eds. Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1995-. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online is intended eventually to include all dissertations recorded in all the printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, as well as all new records. The pages showing new records will be updated once each month throughout the academic year.
African Music Archive from the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz .
American Folklife Center The American Folklife Center's Archive was originally founded as the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library in 1928. In 1978 it became part of the American Folklife Center and was subsequently renamed the Archive of Folk Culture. Today the Archive includes over three million photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images. It consists of documentation of traditional culture from all around the world including the earliest field recordings made in the 1890s on wax cylinder through recordings made using digital technology.
Archive of Maori and Pacific Music The Archive of Maori and Pacific Music houses the world’s largest ethnographic sound collection relating to the Pacific. Established in 1970 to promote research into the music of the indigenous people of New Zealand, the Maori, and those of the people of the Pacific Islands, its holdings today include material from most tribal groups of New Zealand and most Pacific Islands areas, and both commercial and field recordings of vocal and instrumental music.
Archive of World Music Collection (Harvard University) The Archive of World Music, a collection of the Loeb Music Library, was established in 1976 by Professor John Ward and in 1992, with the appointment of Kay Kaufman Shelemay as Harvard's first senior professor of ethnomusicology, moved to the Loeb Music Library to become one of its special collections. It is devoted to the acquisition of archival field recordings of musics world-wide as well as to commercial sound recordings, videos, and DVDs of ethnomusicological interest.
Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana University) The Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University is the largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States
Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads The Bodleian Library has unparalleled holdings of over 30,000 ballads in several major collections. The original printed materials range from the 16th- to the 20th-Century. The Broadside Ballads project makes the digitised copies of the sheets and ballads available to the research community.
British Library Sound Archive Portal site.
Center for World Indigenous Studies The Chief George Manuel Memorial Library is an online library of texts which record and preserve our peoples' struggles to regain their rightful place in the international community.
Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection From the American Memory project of the Library of Congress.
Flanders Ballad Collection The Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College houses an archive of New England folk song and folklife materials. Begun in 1930 by Helen Hartness Flanders of Springfield, Vermont, it was given to Middlebury College in 1941.
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance is a centre of academic and performance excellence housed at the University of Limerick, Ireland. It offers a suite of taught MA and BA courses and a Grad. Dip in music and dance related subject areas. Its research is at the forefront of these fields of enquiry worldwide.
Southern Folklife Collection (UNC) The Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) ranks as one of the nation's foremost archival resources for the study of American folk music and popular culture. SFC holdings extensively document all forms of southern musical and oral traditions across the entire spectrum of individual and community expressive arts, as well as mainstream media production.
William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz The Hogan Jazz Archive, a department within Tulane University's Special Collections Division, is a renowned resource for New Orleans Jazz research. Our collection includes oral histories, recorded music, photographs and film, and sheet music and orchestrations. We also maintain files of manuscripts, clippings, and bibliographic references.
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