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 three collections: Bloomsbury Popular Music, Ethnomusicology, and Sound Studies. Future modules will include opera and classical collections. Future modules will include Sound Design, Music Technology, Opera and Classical, and Jazz and Blues.
‘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.
Covering all five continents 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..
