ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
Included on this page are lists of databases and books available on the Jerry Falwell Library website as well as reliable sources on the internet.
The Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodical literature. Coverage spans from 1973 to the present and contains data from over 850 music periodicals from over 40 countries.
Music Online: African American Music Reference:
Contains documents which chronicle the history of African American music
Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music:
Organized by geographic region, database contains written and audio introduction to the music of the world.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature:
Citations, abstracts, and subject indexing for music-related articles published in journals and conference proceedings, covering all levels from classical to popular music, from ethnomusicology to music therapy, from elementary music education to advanced music theory (Updated monthly)
Ethnographic Video Online -- Volume I:
A comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world. Contains over 1,300 hours of streaming video.
Music Online: Contemporary World Music:
Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. Examples include: Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries:
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
An index of major religious and theology journals, essays, and book reviews. Covers Biblical studies, church history, church music, and religious perspectives on social issues.
Indexes 140 Christian magazines and journals, with strong emphasis on evangelical perspectives. Addresses a broad range of topics, hymnology and worship music. Covers mid-1970s to the present.
Provides full text electronic access to back issues of over 1,000 core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Video Tutorial
Academic Search Ultimate:
Full text journal articles covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more. Updated on a daily basis.
Information about countries with the ability to break down by more specific areas of interest.
World Geography & Culture Online (Facts on File):
Provides basic information about countries including economy, geography, government, people. and culture.
Physical books, E-books and various video materials can be found in the JFL collection.
On the main library page:
1. Use the Advanced Search option and enter terms for your subject.
2. Begin your search using the name of the country of interest. In the second box add the term Music.
3. You can further limit your search using the name of a particular people group or aspect of culture. If you need more boxes for search terms, click on the + sign at the end of the boxes.
4. Limit the search by type of material: ex: Under Content Type select whether you want Book / eBook, DVD, Journal Article, etc.. If you are an online student, print materials can be sent to you through our Inter Library Loan department. E-books and streaming videos can be read or watched online.
There are a number of specific databases that give access to E-book titles in addition to those found in the JFL catalog. Links to these titles will appear in the results page of your search.
Begin with the name of the country and/or people group you are studying. For your second term use the word "music." Additional search terms can be found in the titles and in the subject terms assigned to the material that you find.
Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas.
Google Scholar offers a way to search for scholarly articles outside of the JFL collection. The web address is: scholar.google.com. You will find some references to articles from Liberty's databases, but many more from other sources. If you find an article here that you like and it is not available in full text, you can request it through JFL's Interlibrary Loan.
This is a global, interdisciplinary network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of music across all cultural contexts and historical periods.
WorldCat is an index to the collections of libraries all over the country. it's address is www.worldcat.org. .Worldcat allows you to check for a book's availability within your own zip code.