This growing digital hub provides access to exclusive reference content, cutting edge scholarship, and a variety of learning resources across a range of subject areas in music and sound studies.
The hub currently offers four collections: Bloomsbury Popular Music, Ethnomusicology, Sound Design, and Sound Studies. Future modules will include Jazz and Blues, Opera and Classical, Music Technology, and Music Industry and Business.
‘Bloomsbury Popular Music is the equivalent of the deluxe remastered reissue.’ - Notes (Journal of the Music Library Association)
The original collection, Bloomsbury Popular Music, provides unrivalled scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day, through the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, an expanding range of scholarly books and the 33 1/3series. It supports courses in ethnomusicology, the performing arts, media and communication, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology.
The Sound Studies collection is the first digital resource to provide wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary scholarly content in the study of sound. It contains 112 titles from across Bloomsbury and Taylor & Francis, including comprehensive reference works, as well as works by key sound studies authors including Michael Bull, Brandon LaBelle, Holger Schulze, Jonathan Sterne and Salomé Voegelin. Subject areas covered include art, aesthetics, architecture, contemporary music, history, philosophy, technology, and cultural studies and the growing literature of sonic and auditory theory, methodology, and practice.
Prepare students for successful careers in sound design with this collection of 50 eBooks from Routledge. The collection offers practice-led and technical content for practitioners, scholars, and students, providing professional insight with key titles on all aspects of sound design practice, including audio production and mastering, film and video game music and sound, radio and podcast audio, theatrical sound design, and music composition and recording.
Covering music from across the globe and containing in-depth studies of the musical cultures of over 30 nations and regions, the 79 eBooks and reference works in the Ethnomusicology collection serve as a core resource for music and culture students and scholars around the globe. The collection includes the landmark multi-volume reference work Music Around the World, and reference works that serve as foundational resources on Caribbean popular music, Native American and African American music, ethnic and border music, Latin music, and hip hop around the world, as well as high-quality monograph studies of key issues in the field of ethnomusicology..
