Selected Bibliographies from the IUP Music Library

 

WORLD MUSIC / ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

 

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries:

 

*(REF) ML 100 .N48  2000  Sadie, Stanley, ed.  John Tyrell, exec. ed.  New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd ed.  London ; New York: Macmillan, 2001. 29 v.  (w/ index).

 

*(REF) ML 100 .M921  Finscher, Ludwig, ed.  Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. 2nd ed.  Sachteil. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1994-98.  9 vols.

 

*(REF)  ML 100 .G16   Various eds.  The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music.  New York:  Garland, 1998-2002.  10 vols.:  1. Africa, 2. South America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, 3. United States and Canada, 4. Southeast Asia, 5. South Asia; Indian Subcontinent, 6. Middle East, 7. East Asia: China, Japan and Korea, 8. Europe, 9. Australia and the Pacific Islands, 10. General Perspectives and Reference Tools.

 

*(REF) ML 3545 .W67  World Music.  London: The Rough Guides, 1999, 2000.  2 v.

 

(REF) ML 3551 .C55 2008  Cohen, Norm.  American Folk Songs: A Regional Encyclopedia.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2008.  2 vols.

 

(REF) ML 3551 .A53  Titon, Jeff and Bob Carlin, eds.  American Musical Traditions.  New York:  Schirmer, 2001.  5 vols.

 

(REF) ML 108 .K37 1990  Kaufmann, Walter.  Selected Musical Terms of Non‑Western Cultures:  A Notebook Glossary.   Warren, MI:  Harmonie Park Press, 1990.  806 p.

 

 

Bibliographies:

 

Ethnomusicology: Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology.   Every issue of this journal from 1953 to 2000 featured a Current Bibliography.  From 2000 on, Current Bibliography has been available on the Society for Ethnomusicology web-site.

 

(REF) ML 128 .E8 G5.  Gillis, Frank J. and Alan P. Merriam, comps.  Ethnomusicology and Folk Music:  An International Bibliography of Dissertations and Theses.  Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966.  148 p.

                                   

(REF) ML 3797 .K8 1974.  Kunst, Jaap.  Ethnomusicology.  2nd ed.  The Hague:  Martinus Nijhoff, [1955] 1974.  349 p.

 

(REF) ML 128 .E8 N5 1967.   Nettl, Bruno.  References Materials in Ethnomusicology.  2nd ed.  Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1967. 45p.

 

(REF) ML 128 .E8 P67 2004  Post, Jennifer C.  Ethnomusicology: A Guide to Research.  New York: Routledge, 2004.  470 p.

 

(REF) ML 128 .E8 S4 1992  Schuursma, Ann Briegleb. Ethnomusicology Research: A Selected Bibliography.  New York: Garland, 1992.  173 p.

 

 

Topical bibliographies on world music:

 

(REF) ML 3557 .F8 Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson.  Music and Dance Research of Southwestern United States Indians. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, no. 36.  Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1977.

 

(REF) ML 120 .A35 G7 1991 Gray, John.  African Music: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular, Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa.  African Special Bibliographic Series, no. 14.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991.

 

(REF) ML 120.C5 L5 1979 Lieberman, Fredric.  Chinese Music: An Annotated Bibliography, 2nd ed.  New York: Garland, 1979.

 

(REF) ML 120 .I745 M2 1995 McLean, Mervyn.  An Annotated Bibliography of Oceanic Music and Dance.  Wellington, New Zealand: Polynesian Society, 1977.

 

(REF) ML 128.F74 M5 1986 Miller, Terry E.  Folk Music in America: A Reference Guide.  New York: Garland, 1986.

 

(REF) ML128.F74 P67 1989 Porter, James.  The Traditional Music of Britain and Ireland.  Music Research and Information Guides, 11. New York: Garland, 1989.

 

(REF) ML 120 .K7 S6 Song, Bang Song.  An Annotated Bibliography of Korean Music.  Asian Music Publications, Ser. A, No. 2.  Providence, RI: Brown University, 1971.

 

Stapleton REF Z 5956 .A47 S68 1990 Southern, Eileen and Josephine Wright.  African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections, and Artworks.  The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

 

(REF) ML 120 .J3 T8 1986 Tsuge, Gen'ichi.  Japanese Music: An Annotated Bibliography. Garland Bibliographies in Ethnomusicology, v. 2.  New York: Garland, 1986.

 

 

Discographies, Videographies and Anthologies:

 

JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance.  Montpelier, VT:  Multicultural Media, 1990.  [30 volumes, 25 1/2 hours]

 

The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance. Rockville, MD: Smithsonian Folkways; Montpelier, VT: distributed by Multicultural Media, c1995-96. [of the Americas, 6 v.; of Europe, 2 v. of Africa, 3 v.]

 

(REF) ML156.4.F5 S25 1989 Schaeffer, Deborah L.  Irish Folk Music: A Selected Discography.  Discographies, no. 31.  New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

 

(REF) ML 156.2 .I54 1987 Seeger, Anthony and Louise S. Spear, eds. Early Field Recordings: A Catalog of Cylinder Collections at the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

 

(REF) ML 156.4 .F5 S69 1990 Spottswood, Richard.  Ethnic music on record.  Music in American Life. 7 vols. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.

 

 

Textbooks:

 

ML 3545 .B64 W6 2002  Bohlman, Phillip V.  World Music: A Very Short Introduction.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2002.

ML 3797 .H66
Hood, Mantle.  The Ethnomusicologist.  New York:  McGraw Hill, 1971; Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1982.

 

ML 3917 .U6 M87 2005  Koskoff, Ellen, ed.  Music Cultures in the United States: An Introduction.  New York; Routledge, 2005. 

 

ML 3797 .M49  Merriam, Alan P.  The Anthropology of Music.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1964.

 

ML 3798 .M53 2006  Miller, Terry and Andrew Shahriari.  World Music: A Global Journey.  New York; Routledge, 2006. 2nd ed. 2009.

 

ML 3798 .E84 1992 Myers, Helen.  Ethnomusicology: An Introduction.  New York: Norton, 1992. 487 p. + v.2 Historial and Regional studies. 1993.

 

Nettl, Bruno, et. al. Excursions in World Music.  2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 1997.

 

ML 3797 .N48 Nettl, Bruno.  Theory and Method in Ethnomusicology.  New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964.

 

ML 3798 .N47 1983 _______.  The Study of Ethnomusicology: Twenty-Nine Issues and Concepts.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983.

 

ML 3798 .N47 2005 _______.  The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts.  New ed.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.

 

ML 3545 .N54 2005  Nidel, Richard.  World Music:  The BasicsNew York; Routledge, 2005.

 

MT 6 .R273 M9 1997 Reck, David.  Music of the Whole Earth.  New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1977;  New York: Da Capo Press, 1997.

 

(REF) ML 3799 .G37 1990  Shelemy, Kay Kaufman, ed.  The Garland Library of Readings in Ethnomusicology.  New York: Garland, 1990. 7 vols.

 

MT 90 .S53 2001   _______.  Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World.  New York:  Norton, 2001.

 

ML 3798 .W67 1996  Titon, Jeff et al.  Worlds of Music.  3rd ed.  New York: Schirmer, 1996. + CDs  (see also previous editions)

 

 

 

 

The World Wide Web:

 

There are literally hundreds of Web-sites pertaining to world music, and they change every day.  Two good general “index-like” sites, with links to dozens of other sites are:

 

University of Washington:   http://guides.lib.washington.edu/ethnomusicology

 

World Music Network:  http://www.worldmusic.net


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