8 October 2021
The digital hub will provide 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.
Future modules will include opera and classical ebook and streaming video collections.
The platform currently hosts two collections:
- Bloomsbury Popular Music which has migrated to the new hub
- Sound Studies a brand new collection of over 100 ebooks
Bloomsbury Popular Music
The original collection provides unrivalled scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day, through the Bloomsbury Enyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, over 100 scholarly books and 170 titles in the 33 1/3 and Global 33 1/3 series. Supports courses in ethnomusicology, the performing arts, media and communication, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology.
NEW: Sound Studies
The first digital resource to provide wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary scholarly content in the study of sound, this curated eBook collection unites field-defining content from Taylor & Francis and Bloomsbury on one cross-searchable platform. Scholarly handbooks, monographs, textbooks, and course books cover a range of essential topics, including sound art, the anthropology of sound, sonic methodologies, sonic histories, and much more.