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- Michelle Oswell, Humanities Librarian for Music and Literature (HC)
- Donna Fournier, Music & Dance Librarian (SC)
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MUSC 031 : Musics of Central and South America and the Caribbean (SC)
Exploring:
Latin America article from Oxford Music Online
Caribbean and Latin American Music Resources on the Web
from Wesleyan University
latinoamerica musica
"Essays, analyses, interviews, and news"
The Garland encyclopedia of world music
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 1998-c2002.
A ten volume set organized geographically with excellent articles and bibliographies. The last volume includes summary articles, a glossary, and lists of publications and recordings.
The JVC video anthology of world music and dance
Publisher: [Tokyo] : JVC, Victor Company of Japan [1990]
Production: Produced in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka) and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.
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Smithsonian global sound
Offers recordings from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Folkways Records, and partnering institutions.
National geographic music
Offers browsing by region, genre, and artist. Includes links to a world music glossary and National Geographic Music TV.
Global Music Archive
From Vanderbilt University
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
From the University of Washington, an excellent point from which to browse websites.
Virtual Instrument Museum
from Wesleyan University, includes audio and video examples, some by Elizabeth Sayre.
Finding Books, Videos, and Sound Recordings:
Tripod
Besides using the sources listed above, you will find hundreds of world music materials in the Tri-College collections. Use Tripod, the Tri-College Library catalog. Here are some searching hints:
- Keyword Searches: Start with words used to describe your topic. Try a variety of words and include the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to explore many possibilities, e.g. bali and gamelan.
- Subject Headings Searches: Tripod uses Library of Congress subject headings. They are not always intuitive. Instead of starting with a subject heading search you may want to start with a keyword search. Browse through the list of results until you find something that looks relevant to your research. Look through the description of the item to find "official" library terminology for the topic. You can then click on the links in Tripod labeled, "Subject" such as Music - Indonesia - Bali Island. Also, here are some subject heading formulas you can try:
folk music [country]
folk dance music [country]
dance music [country]
popular music [country]
music [country]
[music genre]
[musical instrument]
- Limiting Searches: You can limit searches in two ways. Before you begin searching you can choose a specialized area such as "Sound Recordings". Also, after getting search results you can click on the "limit/sort search" button or the "modify search" button to refine your results.
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
This is a gigantic catalog of materials owned by libraries all over the world listing books, journals, scores, sound recordings, videos, websites, and manuscript collections. If something you need is not available on Swarthmore’s campus then it can be requested through our Tri-College Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan services.
Finding Articles:
RILM abstracts of music literature
Provider: CSA
Covers material published in music and various other fields as they relate to music. Records appear in over a hundred languages. The majority of citations include abstracts. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest.
International index to music periodicals
Provider: Chadwyck
Provides abstracts to music titles. Offers articles in full-text for over 80 periodicals. Covers all aspects of music including education, composition, theory and ethnomusicology. Covers 1874-present. Full-text begins in the mid-1990s-present.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides online access to an extensive collection of full-text articles from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including music, dance, theater, anthropology, and religion. Covers 1971-present.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: ISI
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Covers 1975- present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
HAPI
Provider: UCLA
Contains citations to scholarly journal articles published in Latin America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and to materials that address this region and U.S. Hispanic topics. Covers political, economic, and social issues. Some citations link to full-text articles. Covers 1970-present.
HLAS online
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes social science and humanities journals and conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations. Also offers links to some full-text articles. Covers 1936-present.
Anthropology plus
Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.
AnthroSource
Provides full text articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, and bulletins. Covers 1888-present.
Anthropological index online
Offers information on journals kept at the Anthropology Library of the British Museum. Provides citations on a large number of titles in all areas of anthropology. Covers 1957-present.
eHRAF world cultures
From Yales, Human Relations Area Files, contains ethnographic and other documents describing the cultures of the world. Includes books, journal articles, and dissertations that are compiled into culture profiles. Many documents are in full-text.
Organizations:
Latin American Network Information Center
Society for Ethnomusicology
International Council for Traditional Music
International Association for the Study of Popular Music
Center for Black Music Research
Evaluating Sources:
Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazine Articles (USTA Library)
This page compares the two types of publications on several levels, including language, structure of articles, editorial procedures, and credits.
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins University Library)
Discusses the criteria by which scholars in most fields evaluate print information, and shows how the same criteria can be used to assess information found on the Internet.
Getting Materials not at Swarthmore:
If something you need is not available on Swarthmore’s campus then it can be requested through our Tri-College Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan services.
Citing Sources:
Chicago manual of style
Chicago/Turabian Documentation
from the University of Wisconsin Writing Center
Guidelines for Citing Scores and Recordings
from Williams College