LibGuides: Music History 3513: Books

Search Examples

SUBJECT SEARCHES (Library Of Congress) - usually a more precise method of searching than using keywords

By Genre:
- Chants
- Drumming
- Reggae
- Traditional and folk
By Time Period, era, culture, or geographic location:
- Music - India - 18th Century
- Music - South America
- Musicians - Africa
By Topic or form:
- Ethnomusicology
- Folk Music [by continent, region, country, culture or language]
- Folk Songs
- Music Africa - History and Criticism
- Music - Bio-bibliography - Encyclopedias
- Musical Instruments - History
- Songs - (specific continent, region, country, culture) World Music

KEYWORD SEARCHES - usually more comprehensive than Subject Searches but also likely to retrieve a lot of nonrelevant documents

EverythingPeer-reviewed articlesBooks

WorldCat
Search World Cat to find books and other materials in other libraries. Use Interlibrary Loan to request book loans.

The Garland Handbook of African Music
Call Number: Click link for access.
Selected essays from The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Volume 1, Africa.
Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia
Call Number: Click link for access.
Music and its connections to social and political issues in the region.
Tradition and Change in the Performance of Chinese Music
Call Number: Click link for access.
Voices in Bali
Call Number: Click link for access.
A polyphonic study of Balinese aesthetics.

EBSCO eBooks
You can also search NUMA search for a combined search of Ebsco ebooks, those in Boreham Library Catalog, and e-books from other sources.
EBSCO provides this comprehensive collection of ebooks covering a wide range of subject categories.

Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies
Call Number: 780.89 Eth38
Musical Instruments of Africa
Call Number: 781.91096 D568
Music Cultures of the Pacific, the near East and Asia
Call Number: 780.95 M297m
Music and musical instruments found in oriental civilizations.
Music in Brazil
Call Number: 781.640981 M9546mb
Samba, bossa nova, Tropicalia, and traditional and popular music.
Music in Latin America by Gerard Behague
Call Number: 780.98 B394m
Music in North India
Call Number: 780.954 R828m
Diverse musical types in India.
Thinking Musically
Call Number: 780.9 W1191tm
Explores musical diversity by integrating the sounds and traditions of world cultures.
Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments
Call Number: 780.952 M2973tj
A history of Japan's musical life, its religious music,court music, and the music of specific instruments.
World Music: a Very Short Introduction
Call Number: 780.9 B6347wm
In-depth treatments of selected music cultures.
World Music: the Rough Guide
Call Number: 781.6 R755g
Background and context on the music of 70 countries and regions.