Bibliographic "topic guides" to selected resources in music. Provides an introduction to the specialized literature on major and minor topics within music. Part of Oxford Bibliographies.
JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance
by
Tomoaki Fujii, Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan, Nihon Bikutā Kabushiki Kaisha, Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
Although The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians centers Western art music, it does contain information on world music, with articles dedicated to individual countries, regions of the world, and non-Western instruments.
Oxford Music Online contains the digital version of The New Grove.
A Manual for Documentation, Fieldwork & Preservation for Ethnomusicologists. 2nd ed.
by
Society for Ethnomusicology
Reference Materials in Ethnomusicology
by
Bruno Nettl
An Annotated Bibliography of Oceanic Music and Dance
by
Mervyn McLean