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RILM hosts the 11th Annual NFAIS Humanities Roundtable, Focus on the Library
RILM is hosting the Eleventh Annual National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) Humanities Roundtable, Focus on the Library, on Monday, 1 October, 2012, at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Music's Intellectual History reviewed in Fontes Artis Musicae
RILM's volume of essays on music historiography, entitled
Music's Intellectual History, has been reviewed by Peter Sühring in
Fontes Artis Musicae 59/1 (January–March 2012) 81–83. For an English translation of the review, click here.
RILM’s Participation in Discovery Services
In response to confusing and potentially misleading information circulating in the marketplace, we would like to clarify the availability of RILM content on online services.
EBSCO to acquire rights to license select databases currently available through the OCLC FirstSearch service
As a result, RILM will no longer be available through the OCLC FirstSearch platform.
The RILM Blog
Music and delinquency
A four-year longitudinal study (n = 309) explored whether early adolescents’ preferences for nonmainstream types of popular music indicate concurrent and later minor delinquency The results …
Frogs and films
Spontaneously recorded music and natural noise, once they are chosen and ordered in a film’s soundtrack, acquire a dignity that was at first …
Fred Astaire’s drunk dances
In his comic depictions of drunk dancing, Astaire used choreography to project social views and feelings about drunkenness, and to set up tensions between …
Stuttgarter Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften
In 2011 Schott launched the series Stuttgarter Musikwissenschaftliche Schriften with Was bleibt? 100 Jahre Neue Musik, edited by Andreas Meyer. Noting that the musical revolutions of …
Folk lexicon
Folk lexicon: Lexicon of the modern folk fan was published by Caffè Lena in 2013. This free online resource provides information on the folk music …