Ethnomusicology
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Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Key databases
Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more that 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
RILM abstracts of music literature
A bibliography of music literature which cover all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. It also includes other fields as they relate to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics..
Arts & humanities citation index
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
Provides full text articles from music journals. All volumes of each title are availble except for the last few years.
Other databases
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books in the social sciences and humanities
Provides indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies
Comprises over 450,000 bibliographic entries, providing a research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. The database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide
The online version of the Bibliography of Asian studies contains records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present
The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features
Ingenta Select, formerly CatchWord, hosts over 1100 journals for 65 publisher clients. The University of Queensland Library provides online full text access to over 250 of these journals
Browse all databases for Music
Browse all databses for Anthropology
Specialised Resources
Web Sites
International Council for Traditional Music
Ethnomusicology Resources on the Web
Ethnomusicology Online (EOL) : peer reviewed multimedia web journal
Resources in Ethnographic Studies
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music and World Music
Music and anthropology: Journal of Musical Anthropology of the Mediterranean
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