LibGuides@Southampton: Music: Archives and primary sources

Oxford Bibliographies: Music

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Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative research guides which combine the features of an annotated bibliography and an encyclopedia. A good introduction to researching a particular topic.

Subculture Archives

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Subculture archives is educational & cultural research resource of primary sources exploring 100 years of youth culture through the scenes, styles, and sounds that forged them. From Rave, Punk, Rockabilly to Grime.
Subculture archives is formed from the collectons of the Museum of Youth Culture - an emerging museum dedicated to the styles, sounds and social movements innovated by young people over the last 100 years. Championing the impact of youth on modern society, the Museum of Youth Culture is a non-profit Heritage Lottery & Arts Council Funded collection incorporating photographs, ephemera, objects and oral histories celebrating our shared youth culture history. From the bomb-site Bicycle racers in post-war 1940s London, to the Acid House ravers of 1980s Northern England, the Museum of Youth Culture empowers the extraordinary everyday stories of growing up in Britain.

Primary Sources

Early European Books This link opens in a new window
Early European Books provides scholars with new ways of accessing and exploring all works printed in Europe before 1701, drawing together a diverse array of printed sources, regardless of language, as well as works published further afield.

Historical Texts (from JISC) includes the majority of published items in the British Isles between 1473 and 1800, including texts about music and early music scores.

RISM

RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) is an international organisation, with the aim of comprehensively documenting sources of music surviving all over the world.

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RISM aims to locate and document all surviving musical sources dating from the earliest times to about 1800.
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) was established in 1949 by the International Musicological Society and International Association of Music Libraries. Its aim is to locate and document all surviving musical sources dating from the earliest times to about 1800. RISM's publications cover printed and manuscript music, works of music theory and libretti, and have become central research tools, to trace and identify source material. Thirty-two countries have contributed or are contributing information about their national music collections to RISM. The print series are on Level 4 at Z/ML 113 REP. Access RISM online from the Databases & Indexes page on the Music subject page. RISM (UK) is freely available at http://www.rism.org.uk/ for Music Manuscripts (1600 to 1800) in British and Irish Libraries.
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This database holds details of pre-1850 music sources preserved in libraries and archives in the UK and Ireland.
This database holds details of pre-1850 music sources preserved in libraries and archives in the UK and Ireland. It includes manuscripts from national, public and academic libraries, county and city record offices, cathedral and chapel libraries and some private collections.

Media

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more.
BoB This link opens in a new window
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An off-air recording and media archive service that allows you to record TV and radio programmes scheduled for broadcast over the next seven days as well as retrieving programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of channels. In addition, you can watch programmes from the archive, create clips, and compile your favourite shows into playlists. Further information
Due to E.U legislation, any UK registered students in the EU will not be able to access BoB (apart from the BBC News Channel* ) from 1st January 2021.
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Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities that offers films and documentaries.The service includes features such as captions, transcripts, clip creation, and playlist creation that allow users to share videos.

Please note: You will need to create a personal account to access Kanopy through either the mobile or TV apps. Creating an account on Kanopy will also allow you to save videos to your Watchlist to view later, create clips and playlists.

For more help creating an account, click here
Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window
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An extensive online portal that allows users to search through and view more than 54,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of genocide. Please note: you will need to register on the site to use features such as “My Projects/Bookmarked Projects/Shared Projects”.