Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1080/10588167.2022.2157652
Benjimen Neal
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Pub Date : 2022-12-13DOI: 10.1080/10588167.2022.2157649
Cara Benner
{"title":"Music Copyright: An Essential Guide for the Digital Age","authors":"Cara Benner","doi":"10.1080/10588167.2022.2157649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2022.2157649","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35390,"journal":{"name":"Music Reference Services Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59689602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1080/10588167.2022.2137319
Alastair Canavan
ABSTRACT The term “world music” has been used for decades as a catchall genre to describe any form of music outside of the Western classical tradition. Its use furthers a Eurocentric bubble that others or ignores other cultures and their music. By examining the public-facing catalogs of thirteen university libraries across ten different countries to determine to what extent Non-Western music is included in the collection, how it is classified, and if the term “world music” is used to do so; the specific practices and norms that perpetuate a bias toward Western art music can be identified and highlighted. Correcting this bias requires university libraries to both collect a larger volume of Non-Western music materials and alter how their music collections are described. This paper concludes by suggesting some best practices for classifying music collections using faceted vocabularies that afford Non-Western music and cultures the same respect given to Western art music.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-03DOI: 10.1080/10588167.2022.2123164
Emily M. Colucci
Since the early 2000’s, the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) has brought together professionals from varying backgrounds seeking innovative methods to create and share western musical notation within an open-source digital environment. The ability to encode the finer intricacies of musical notation utilizing MEI schemas such as the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) is described by the MEI Guidelines and its accompanying bylaws. This review highlights resources on the MEI website (https://music-encoding.org) and Humanities Commons platform (https://hcommons.org/groups/musicencoding-initiative/deposits/) that keep the community connected and serve as practical aids for individuals wishing to become involved. The Music Encoding Initiative welcomes anyone interested in working together to create and reproduce manuscripts and facsimiles of musical works. A portion of this review essay introduces a series of video tutorials and accompanying documentation created for graduate music students by Maristella Feustle, the Music Special Collections Music Librarian at the University of North Texas (UNT). Access to these tutorials and documentation via the MEI website and the Humanities Commons CORE repository is a focus of discussion, as these videos provide guidance to music professionals becoming more accustomed to working with the Music Encoding Initiative. A recent phenomenon also discussed here encompasses teaching MEI to graduate music students studying MEI throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. While this endeavor presents benefits and challenges, the concept of teaching music encoding to graduate music students using MEI may become more prevalent in music programs.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.1080/10588167.2022.2124580
Tim Sestrick
{"title":"Thinking and Playing Music: Intentional Strategies for Optimal Practice and Performance","authors":"Tim Sestrick","doi":"10.1080/10588167.2022.2124580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2022.2124580","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35390,"journal":{"name":"Music Reference Services Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46345478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-15DOI: 10.1080/10588167.2022.2124564
Stephanie Bonjack
{"title":"Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll","authors":"Stephanie Bonjack","doi":"10.1080/10588167.2022.2124564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10588167.2022.2124564","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35390,"journal":{"name":"Music Reference Services Quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41743460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}