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Demographic Resources in Music

Composers, Performers & Repertory (Online)

Additional Online Resources

Audio & Video Resources

medici.tv 

Naxos Video Library

UK Libraries Databases

Subject Headings & Call Numbers

►SUBJECT HEADINGS & THE ADVANCED SEARCH

Unfortunately at this time, the Library of Congress Subject Headings do not offer an approved heading for Asian American music or musicians. 

Try this keyword search in the basic InfoKat search: [use the quotation marks around "asian americans"]

You can also do a subject search for music in a particular country:

Scores and AV are best searched by composer, performer, and/or genre, and limiting to the material type to Scores, Audio, or Videos, for example:

  • Go to Advanced Search
  • Search for           Library Catalog
  • Search Filters     Author/creator contains   Chen Yi
  • Materials Type    Scores

►CALL NUMBERS -- BOOKS

  • ML3740-ML3758     Asian music (folk, national, & ethnic)

►CALL NUMBERS -- SCORES

  • M1795-M1828        Asian music (folk, national, & ethnic)

Or try searching in an Advanced Author/Creator search set to "Contains" the composer's name and setting the Material Type to Scores.

Works in the Western art music tradition are not generally given separate call numbers that indicate ethnicity, gender, orientation, or place of birth. See the document below of an outline of the Library of Congress Classification System for scores: