Freshman Seminar 33q: Global Pop Music

15. Europe

NOTE: These lists are intended to be representative only and to pique curiosity. These basic sources can help you narrow down a topic and find useful keyword search terms to try in Hollis and databases (Sections 2 and 3).

Selected online:

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: Europe (Volume 8)

Archive of World Music (Harvard University), located in the Loeb Music Library houses many commercial world music recordings (find in Hollis) and also archival collections, such as extensive field recordings from the 1980s by Martha Forsyth of traditional Bulgarian songs, field recordings of Tvisöngur (male polyphony in Iceland), and !Kung field recordings. AWM is also home to the Laura Boulton Collection of Byzantine and Orthodox Musics. Comprised of sound recordings, accompanying documentation, and numerous ancillary materials, the collection represents Boulton's field work throughout the Eastern Orthodox world during the 1950s and 1960s. The collection includes related Armenian, Russian, Coptic, and Ethiopian music materials as well

Europe (University of Washington Libraries ethnomusicology portal)

Eurovision Song Contest

Folk Music and Ethnomusicology (WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists)
Dirty Linen, Irish World Music Centre, Jamtlandic Folk Music (you'll have to click to find out), and other useful portals.

Milman Parry On-line Collection (Harvard University)
Poetry and song from the South Slavic and Balkan traditions

Norwegian Music Information Centre


Selected print:

Global Noise: Rap and Hip-hop Outside the USA
ed by Tony Mitchell
Location 1: Loeb Music ML3531 .G56 2001
Location 2: Tozzer Harvard Depository TOZ-LC ML3531 .G56 2001
Location 3: Widener WID-LC ML3531 .G56 2001

A Song for Europe: Popular Music and Politics in the Eurovision Song Contest
ed by Ivan Raykoff and Robert Deam Tobin
Location: Loeb Music Harvard Depository ML76.E87 S66 2007

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