Where to Begin? - World Music - LibGuides @ University of Illinois Library at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Guides

Research guides are always a good place to go when beginning to dig deeper into a topic and are excellent starting points.

Ethnomusicology: a guide to research - Post, Jennifer C.

Call Number: ML128.E8 P67

This book was published in 2004 so it won't cover items published in the past five years or so, but it does have a lot of helpful information for the early stages of research. It has good information on specific geographic areas.

Reference materials in ethnomusicology - Nettl, Bruno

Call Number: ML128.E8 N38R31967

This book is from the late 1960s and as such is fairly dated. However, it might have good information if you want to do historical research and many of the contents are still valid.

The music and dance of the world’s religions : a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of materials in the English language - Rust, Ezra Gardner.

Call Number: ML128.S17 R87

This book focuses specifically on music tied to religious practices. It covers many different religions and world regions.

Local Resource

U of I's Robert E Brown Center for World Music

http://www.music.illinois.edu/cwm/

A Guide to the Guide

Ethnomusicology can be difficult to research. It covers a wide variety of topics and, unlike historical musicology, doesn't have a widely accepted central canon of well-known works. It can also involve difficulties of language, geography, and cultural differences. However, this guide should help you navigate the resources available in the library and if you need more help, please ask a librarian!

To help you more efficiently navigate within this LibGuide, here is an outline of the topics covered on each page:

Where to Begin?

-Research Guides

Journal Articles

Recordings

-Streaming Audio

Reference Tools

Text (and other) Books

Searching the Catalog

-Subject Headings

-Country Codes

Instruments