Oxford has launched the Oxford Music Online and the first-ever online version of Colin Larkin's highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Fourth Edition. Containing 27,000 entries and over 6,000 new entries, the online edition includes 50 percent more material than the Third Edition. Featuring a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music, the Encyclopedia also offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals.
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Coming in early 2008 will be the highly-anticipated redesign of Grove Music Online. Launched in 2001 at the time of the publication of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition, Grove Music Online has since grown to include The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (added in 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Second Edition (added in 2003) and over 250 articles from The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (added from 2004 to 2006). New articles, not previously available in print, are added regularly and existing articles are reviewed and updated. With an early 2008 relaunch and inclusion in Oxford Music Online, Grove Music Online will become the cornerstone of an online collection of Oxford's music reference. Extensive technical work is additionally underway to improve functionality and to create a site that meets the highest possible accessibility standards.
Grove Music Online will also include a long anticipated partnership with the indispensable bibliographic database RILM. A link from the top of the bibliography of every article in Grove will allow readers to move from Grove's selective bibliographies to a search of the extensive content of the RILM database. At launch this is available to subscribers to RILM through OCLC, EBSCOhost, and CSA.
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