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Ethnomusicology

Quick Tips for Searching for Music in InfoKat Discovery

Here's is the digest version of the above document--

Keyword Searching (the default search box)

  • Will search all the words you have entered, but not necessarily in the same order.
  • Use quotations to search phrases: e.g., "javanese gamelan"

Creator/Author Search (=composer, performer, ensemble)

  • Enter: last name, first name [case doesn't matter]

Title Search (in Advanced search or Browse search)

  • Enter as much of the title as you know.
  • Drop initial articles in ALL languages.
  • Best results if you search the musical title in its original language. (check Grove's)
  • Search song titles here in addition to the Keyword Search.

Subject Search (in Advanced search or Browse search)

  • Search a person's name as a subject to find biographies and books about their work.
  • Check the subject headings of books that cover your topic and click the subject heading link to find more items on the same subject!

Advanced Search

  • Take advantage of limiters for material type, dates, etc.

Truncation

  • use the asterisk mark * for truncation  cultur*  will retrieve all of these terms: culture, cultures, cultural, and so on.

Searching for Music in InfoKat Discovery

InfoKat's Advanced Search

InfoKat Advanced Search

  • To search UK's holdings select the  "Library Catalog" button.
  • To search additional online resources leave the "Search for" button at "Search."
  • Set the first parameter to search "Subject". Some suggested subjects:
    • Folk music
    • Music
    • Songs
  • Leave the second parameter set at "Any field." Some suggested terms:
    • A country's name
    • A region
    • An ethnic group
    • A language

Click the links below to execute searches in the library's catalog:

InfoKat's Subject Browse Search

InfoKat Subject Browse 

Just type in a suggested term from below, or one of your own, and you'll retrieve a listing of that term with additional subdivisions:

For example, browse Ethnomusicology and you'll also retrieve:
     Ethnomusicology -- Australia
     Ethnomusicology -- Mali -- Bamako
and other headings.

Or, browse Folk music and you'll also retrieve:  
     Folk music -- Argentina
     Folk music -- Georgia (Republic)
and other headings.

Additional subject headings to browse:

     Anthropology
     Applied ethnomusicology
     Ecomusicology

     Ethnology
     Folk musicians

     Indigenous peoples
     Language and culture
     Music and globalization

     Music and race
     Musical instruments
     Musicians -- Interviews
     Popular music

     Songs
     World music
    

Call Numbers for Browsing

SCORES

  • M1627--M1853        Folk, national, and ethnic musics

BOOKS

  • GN301--GN674              Ethnology
  • GN495.4                         Ethnic groups
  • ML3469--ML3541           Popular musics
  • ML3544--ML3785           Folk, national, and ethnic musics
  • ML3797.6-- ML3799.5    Ethnomusicology
  • P35-P35.5                      Anthropological linguistics