4. Selected Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Grove Music Online (Harvard users): Premier music reference source with thorough articles and bibliographies (some world music coverage, major areas and genres only). Try searches for areas such as "Southeast Asia".
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online (Harvard users): Premier reference source in world music! Lengthy, comprehensive articles, with thorough bibliographies and discographies.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Harvard Users): New!
Oxford Reference Online: Performing Arts (Harvard Users): More concise definitions of major terms in world music.
See also Online Tools for General Reference (Online Resources for Music Scholars) for sources like the Encyclopedia Britannica, gazzeteers, other biographical sources. Print reference sources are available in the Aldrich Room, Loeb Music Library (jazz, pop).