World Music Research Guide: Key Resources

Best place to start research in world music. Each entry includes an overview of a region with a survey of its musical heritage and accompanying audio examples.

Listen to the entire Smithsonian Folkways collection along with partner archives; includes original liner notes. Search or browse by geographic area, musical instrument, or cultural group.

Best for scholarly journals and articles, book chapters, dissertations, and foreign-language materials; best coverage for musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory.

Best for articles on popular music, music education, jazz, and performance; also includes some foreign-language material.

Best for articles on popular music and performance.