The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by
"Garland's ambitious 10-volume series takes a cultural approach to its focus on the music of all the world's peoples. Each volume is arranged topically, regionally, or by ethnic group, and complemented by an extensive index. Although each volume will differ because of the nature of the material, the organization remains consistent throughout all: regional overviews first; music in the social context next; then finally, the musical traditions of individual countries or ethnic groups. Of exceptional value are the CDs that accompany each volume, often with previously unrecorded music, as well as the resource guides, extensive bibliographies, and photographs."
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: an Encyclopedic History by
The music of the peoples of South and Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean has never received a comprehensive treatment in English until this multi-volume work. Taking a sociocultural and human-centered approach, Music in Latin America and the Caribbean gathers the best scholarship from writers all over the world to cover in depth the musical legacies of indigenous peoples, creoles, African descendants, Iberian colonizers, and other immigrant groups that met and mixed in the New World. Within a history marked by cultural encounters and dislocations, music emerges as the powerful tool that negotiates identities, enacts resistance, performs belief, and challenges received aesthetics. This work, more than two decades in the making, was conceived as part of "The Universe of Music: A History" project, initiated by and developed in cooperation with the International Music Council, with the goals of empowering Latin Americans and Caribbeans to shape their own musical history and emphasizing the role that music plays in human life. The four volumes that constitute this work are structured as parts of a single conception and gather 150 contributions by more than 100 distinguished scholars representing 36 countries [Publisher description].
The Rough Guide to World Music by
These eye-popping volumes, which omit the glossaries but otherwise update and expand to twice the size the marvelous single-volume 1994 edition (LJ 1/95), give general audiences over 160 articles on pop, folk, and non-Western classical musical traditions from nearly every country in the world and many borderless ethnic groups or national musical subdivisions. (Jazz and much of U.S. commercially popular music are not included.) The articles, written in British English by more than 100 contributors and delivered with opinionated snap and multicultural spice, provide historical background, cultural context, interviews with musicians, quotations from lyrics, discographies (including CDs, some highlighted for "first purchase"; cassette tapes; and a few vinyl discs), and black-and-white photos of selected musicians. Each volume includes information on contributors (a mix of scholars, journalists, producers, and fans), a directory of record labels and shops, ads for recordings and magazines, and many references to web sites. Highly recommended for public libraries and for any music library as a guide to recorded sound collection building.ABonnie Jo Dopp, Univ. of Maryland Libs., College Park
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The Rough Guide to World Music by
The Rough Guide to World Music is the unchallenged reference work on sounds from around the globe. This third edition is more comprehensive than ever - updated and expanded throughout and with a number of new countries added. Volume 1: Africa & Middle East has full coverage of genres from Afrobeat to Arabesque, and artists from Amadou & Mariam to Umm Kulthum. The book includes articles on more than 60 countries written by expert contributors, discographies for each article with biographical notes on thousands of musicians and reviews of their best CDs.
Caribbean Popular Music by
This reference consists of approximately 700 entries about styles of music that developed from reggae, such as mento, ska, rock steady, and dancehall music. Moskowitz describes singers, songwriters, producers, engineers, record labels, bands, and organizations from Bob Marley, Boom Shaka, and Jimmy Cliff to DJ music, UB40, rastafarianism, and Taj Mahal.
Encyclopedia of World Pop Music, 1980-2001 by
In this eclectic encyclopedia, author Stan Jeffries chronicles the careers of over 110 musical artists from 37 different nations. Entries include biographical information, trace the entrants' musical development, and recount the performers' critical and popular reception. Annotation. Weighted heavily towards European acts and secondarily towards Asian ones, this encyclopedia contains some 130 entries offering career details of groups and single artists who have achieved success in world pop charts. The selection is arbitrary and incomplete, with four entries from South Africa representing the entirety of the African continent, the growing influence of Arab pop music completely ignored, and the arguably crucial contribution of Jamaica to world pop utterly neglected.
World by
Provides short biographies of artists from around the world, including Selena, Bob Marley, and Ravi Shankar, and includes reviews of thousands of compact discs.
The Billboard Illustrated Musical by
Presents a comprehensive guide to choosing and playing electronic, acoustic, and digital instruments, including percussion, brass, woodwind, strings, and keyboard.
Encyclopedia of Percussion by
"Percussion: An Encyclopedia, 2nd edition, updates and enlarges one of Routledge's most successful music-reference works. The only comprehensive encyclopedia covering all of the major percussion instruments, the volume is divided into 4 major sections: an alphabetical dictionary of percussion instruments and terms; illustrations of key percussion instruments; longer, individual articles on key members of the percussion family, from Bass Drum to Xylophone, written by leading percussionists and scholars; and finally, several appendices of terms and symbols and a comprehensive bibliography. This new edition is expanded to include new research in the field as well as increased coverage of electronic and world percussion instruments."--Publisher description.
Musical Instruments by
"Musical Instruments traces the evolution of music instruments and their important contributions to today's world cultures. With more than 150 color photographs, this illustrated book by ethnologist Lucie Rault explores the relationship between musical instruments and the people and societies who use them. She examines the importance of various cultures by looking at the art of musical instruments from depictions of early instruments in prehistoric cave paintings to modern paintings by Marc Chagall; and the development of the instruments themselves, from simple inventions made from bone to ornate ceremonial tools used in many of today's world cultures." "From the vocal chord to precision string instruments, from the cai trong kuan (Vietnamese zither) to the edungu (Ugandan lyre), Musical Instruments details an array of instruments and provides unique anthropological insights into the relationship between ethnography and music. From basic forms of communication to complex religious ceremonies, the musical instrument has helped to shape the many societies of the world. Now, for the first time, this book explores the many diverse and fundamental roles of musical instruments around the globe."--Jacket.
Musical Instruments of the World by
Details the forms, decoration, evolutions, methods of sounding past and present, and mechanical and electrical instruments from around the world, ranging through folk, popular, orchestral, and national instruments of every kind.
The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments by
This convenient and attractive guide lists ancient to contemporary musical instruments and gives both history and technical information. Many illustrations, both drawings and photographs help to clarify the text. Coverage is international; it includes not only instruments limited to one region, but also has longer articles for countries/continents, which discuss the kind of instruments developed there. Instrument makers appear in an appendix. Highly recommended for secondary collections.
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The Butler Libraries use the Library of Congress Classification system. This is an alpha-numeric system of classification (meaning it uses both letters and numbers to describe the classification and location of an item).
Here are some useful basic LC classes for music:
M = Scores
ML = Music History & Literature
ML100-109 Dictionaries and encyclopedias
ML105-107 Bio-bibliography
ML113-158 Bibliography
ML134 Composer catalogs, thematic catalogs, A-Z
ML159-3797 History and criticism
ML 198-350.5 By region or country
ML 198-239 America
ML 240-325 Europe
ML 330-345 Asia
ML 350-350.5 Africa
ML1620197 By time period
ML385-429 Biography
ML410 Composers, A-Z
ML416-421 Performers, A-Z
MT = Musical Instruction and Study (scores or books)
MT3 History of music education
MT5.5-7 Music theory
MT6.5 Collections of music for analysis
MT90-146 Analytical guides
MT170-810 Instrumental techniques
MT820-949 Voice instruction
The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance
v. 1-2. Korea -- v. 3-4. China -- v. 5. China/Mongolia -- v. 6. Vietnam/Cambodia -- v. 7. Thailand/Burma -- v. 8. Malaysia/Philippines -- v. 9-10. Indonesia -- v. 11-13. India -- v. 14. Pakistan/Bangladesh -- v. 15. Sri Lanka/Nepal/Bhutan -- v. 16. Turkey/Iran/Iraq/Lebanon/Qatar -- v. 17. Egypt/Tunisia/Morocco/Mali/Cameroon/Zaire/Tanzania -- v. 18. Chad/Cameroon -- v. 19. Ivory Coast/Botswana/Republic of South Africa -- v. 20. Ireland/England/France/Switzerland/West Germany/Spain/Italy/Greece -- v. 21. Poland/Czechoslovakia/Hungary -- v. 22. Romania/Yugoslavia/Bulgaria/Albania -- v. 23. Russia -- v. 24. Latvia/Estonia/Lithuania/Belorussia/Ukraine/Moldavia -- v. 25. Azerbaijan/Armenia/Georgia/Dagestan -- v. 26. Kazakh/Uzbek/Turkmen/Tajik/Kirgiz/Kalmyk/Mari/Bashkir/Siberia -- v. 27. North American Indians -- v. 28. Mexico/Cuba/Bolivia/Argentina -- v. 29. Micronesia/Melanesia/Australia -- v. 30. Polynesia/New Zealand.
Book 1: Introduction -- Book 2. East Asia -- Book 3. Southeast Asia -- Book 4. South Asia -- Book 5. The Middle East & Africa -- Book 6. The Soviet Union -- Book 7. Europe -- Book 8. The Americas -- Book 9. Oceania.
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