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Ethnomusicology
This is intended to be a very selective guide to reference sources in world music and
ethnomusicology research. Because it is not comprehensive, it should be used only as a starting
point. Ethnomusicology is an interdisciplinary field, drawing on information from many other
fields. You may also wish to consult guides on
anthropology and sociology
created by subject librarians in McKeldin reference.
The guide is divided into six sections:
NOTE: All items are located in the Music Library, unless otherwise indicated.
- Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 20 vols. New York:
Macmillan, 1980. Ready Ref.ML100.G887(also located on the Music Library's
Index
Table and in Hornbake Reference on the 1st floor)
- The most important English language music encyclopedia. Of special interest to scholars of
world music is the index to ethnomusicological terminology in the appendix (vol. 20). There are
also other encyclopedias published by Grove of use to ethnomusicologists: The New Grove
Dictionary of American Music, The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, and The New
Grove Dictionary of Jazz. All are located in Music Ready Reference (behind the desk).
- Kaufmann, Walter,Selected Musical Terms of Non-Western Cultures: A Notebook-Glossary. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1990.Ref.ML108.K37 1990
- Definitions of musical terms from cultures in Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
- Print and Electronic Indexes
- Music Index. Index Table ML118.M84
- The primary indexing source for over 500 music journals and magazines. Arranged by
author and subject. Issued monthly with annual or two-year cumulations. The Music Index
on CD-ROM covers materials from 1981-1991 and is available through the UMCP Libraries
Local Area Network.
- RILM Abstracts. Index Table ML1.I83
- A scholarly music indexing and abstacting service. Arranged by subject and author, each
entry includes a brief summary of the items content. MUSE RILM's CD-ROM product
covers the years 1969 to 1992, and includes more than 100,000 items from the Music Division of
the Library of Congress. Ask for the disc at the Music Library reference desk.
- UNCOVER
- A periodical indexing and document delivery service available through VICTOR, the
University of Maryland on-line catalog. Indexes thousands of periodicals from 1988 to the
present.
- Guidebooks
- Kunst, Jaap. Ethnomusicology: A Study of Its Nature, Its Problems, Methods and
Representative Personalities to Which is Added a Bibliography, 3rd ed. with supplement.
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960. Ref.ML3797.K8 1974.
- Historically, one of the most significant guidebooks to the field, invaluable in studying its
historical development. Over 5000 items in the bibliography.
- Hood, Mantle. The Ethnomusicologist. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press,
1982. ML3798.H66 1982
- Myers, Helen, ed. Ethnomusicology: An Introduction. New York: W.W. Norton,
1992. (The Norton/Grove handbooks in music) Ref.ML3799.E82 1992
- ____. Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies.New York: W.W. Norton,
1993. (The Norton/Grove handbooks in music) Ref.ML3799.E821 1993
- These two Norton/Grove handbooks are recent attempts to overview the entire field of
ethnomusicology. Each volume includes a number of essays on particular topics as well as
current bibliographies.
- World Wide Web Resources
- Ethnomusicology Links from the University of Washington
- An especially good site which provides links to many other WWW homepages of interest to
ethnomusicologists.
- Society for Ethnomusicology
Homepage
- University of Maryland Ethnomusicology Program
- Bibliographies
- Duckles, Vincent H., and Michael Keller. Music Reference and Research Materials: An
Annotated Bibliography, 4th ed. New York: Schirmer. Ref.ML113.D83 1988
- "Duckles" annotates over 3200 general music reference sources, including works of interest
to ethnomusicologists and those studying world music.
- Frisbie, Charlotte J. Music and Dance Research of Southwestern United States Indians:
Past Trends, Present Activities, and Suggestions for Further Research. Detroit: Information
Coordinators, 1977. (Detroit studies in music bibliography, 36) Ref.ML3557.F74
- Gillis, Frank, and Alan P. Merriam, comps. Ethnomusicology and Folk Music: An
International Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 1966. (Special series in ethnomusicology, v. 1) Ref.ML128.E8G5
- An older source. For current information check Dissertations Abstracts
International, Adkins and Dickenson Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, or recent
issues of the journal Ethnomusicology.
- Gray, John. African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art,
and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1991. (African
special bibliographic series, 14) Ref.ML120.A35G7 1991
- Lieberman, Fredric. Chinese Music: An Annotated Bibliography, 2nd ed. New
York: Garland, 1979. Ref.ML120.C5L5 1979
- McLean, Mervyn. An Annotated Bibliography of Oceanic Music and Dance,rev.
and enlarged 2nd ed. Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1995. Ref.ML120.I745 M2 1995
- Miller, Terry E. Folk Music in America: A Reference Guide. New York: Garland,
1986. Ref.ML128.K7S6
- Nettl, Bruno. Reference Materials in Ethnomusicology: A Bibliographic Essay, 2nd.
ed. Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1967. (Detroit studies in music bibliography, 1)
Ref.ML128.M8N5 1967.
- Porter, James. The Traditional Music of Britain and Ireland. New York: Garland,
1989. (Music reference and information guides, 11) Ref.ML128.F74P67 1989
- Schuursma, Ann Briegleb. Ethnomusicology Research: A Select Annotated
Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1991. (Garland library of music ethnology)
Ref.ML128.E8S4 1992
- A guide to the most important theoretical writing in the field. Does not cover geographical
topics unless the particular research has added something theoretically significant to the field as a
whole.
- Song, Bang Song. An Annotated Bibliography of Korean Music. Providence, RI:
Brown University, 1971. (Asian music publications, A, 2) Ref.ML120.K7S6
- Southern, Eileen, and Josephine Wright. African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon,
Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and
Artworks. New York: Greenwood, 1990. (The Greenwood encyclopedia of black music)
Ref.NX512.2.A35S6 1990
- Tsuge, Gen'ichi. Japanese Music: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland,
1986. (Garland bibliographies in ethnomusicology) McKeldin EASIA WSTREF
ML120.J3T8 1986
- Discographies
- Broughton, Simon, et al., eds.World music: the rough guide.New York: The Rough Guides, Penguin, 1994. 697 pp.Ref.ML3545.W66 1994
- A guidebook to world popular musics on record.
- Cohen, Norm. Traditional Anglo-American Folk Music: An Annotated Discography of
Published Sound Recordings. New York: Garland, 1994. Ref.ML156.4.F5C64
1994
- Danielou, Alain. A Catalogue of Recorded Classical and Traditional Indian Music.
Paris: UNESCO, 1952. (Archives of recorded music) Ref.ML156.4.N3I53
- Indiana University, Archives of Traditional Music. A Catalog of Phonorecordings of
Music and Oral Data Held by the Archives of Traditional Music. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1975.
Ref.ML156.2.I53
- A guide to one of the most important ethnographic sound archives in the U.S.A.
- Keeling, Richard. A Guide to Early Field Recordings (1900-1949) at the Lowie
Museum of Anthropology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Ref.ML156.4.G5K43 1991
- Kinnear, Michael S. A Discography of Hindustani and Karnatic Music. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. (Discographies, 17) Ref.ML156.4.F5K43 1991
- A comprehensive discography of commercially available classical Indian music.
- Laade, Wolfgang. Neue Musik in Afrika, Asien und Ozeanien: Diskographie und
historisch-stilistischer Ueberblick. Heidelberg: Wolfgang Laade, 1971.
Ref.ML156.2.L2
- Lee, Dorothy Sara. Native North American Music and Oral Data: A Catalogue of
Sound Recordings, 1893-1976. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.
Ref.ML156.2.I55
- A catalog of field recordings covering numerous tribes.
- Merriam, Alan P. African Music on LP: An Annotated Discography. Evanston, IL:
Northwestern University Press, 1970. Ref.ML156.4.F5S25 1989
- Schaeffer, Deborah L. Irish Folk Music: A Selected Discography. New York:
Greenwood, 1980. (Discographies, 31) Ref.ML156.4.F5S25 1989
- Seeger, Anthony, and Louise Spear, eds. Early Field Recordings: A Catalogue of
Cylinder Recordings at the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1987. Ref.ML156.2.I54 1987
- Supplements the catalog published by Indiana University in 1975.
- Stone, Ruth, and Frank J. Gillis. African Music and Oral Data: A Catalog of Field
Recordings, 1902-1975. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976.
Ref.ML156.4.P7S8
- Spottswood, Richard. Ethnic Music on Record, 7 vols. Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 1991. (Music in American life) Ref.ML156.4.F5S69 1990
- A monumental discography of commercially issued recordings covering folk and ethnic
musics in the United States.
- Toth, Andrew. Recordings of the Traditional Music of Bali and Lombok. N.p.:
Society
for Ethnomusicology, 1980. (Special series, 4) Ref.ML156.4.N3B37
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