(23 Aug 2021) China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has just announced that, from October 1, any music that breaches a fresh set of government rules will be banned from being played within the country’s near-50,000 karaoke venues. According to a direct translation of the new government rules (via Reddit), music that is in contravention of…
(14 July 2018, New Delhi) Hundreds of rare ethnographic sound recordings, including parables, songs, hymns, instrumental music, and poems, made their way to India as part of a collaborative project between British Library and Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE). The project, entitled South Asian Audiovisual Heritage, aims at preserving these historic recordings and…
(18 April 2017) Philip Sutton writes that The New York Public Library recently published a blog post about favorite fictional librarians. Sutton is a librarian who plays music—and the drummer in his group is also a librarian—which got him thinking about songs about libraries and librarians. Here is his list of ten songs about libraries and librarians…
(17 October 2016, Danvers, Mass.) Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), creating global licensing and content solutions that make copyright work, announces the launch of RightFind™ Music, a search and file management website designed to help customers find, download and manage music from APM Music’s collection of more than 500,000 tracks licensed for use in presentations…
(13 September 2016) State Library Victoria will be the 2016 hub for Melbourne Music Week, illuminating the city’s world-renowned music scene. Speaking at the launch today Lord Mayor of Melbourne Robert Doyle said he was “delighted to be partnering with one of the icons of Melbourne, the great State Library Victoria as our Melbourne Music Week…
(5 August 2016) Nestled within Potato Head’s newest location in Hong Kong lies a beautiful new listening space designed for vinyl lovers, audiophiles and left-field dance music aficionados. The interactive listening space has been appointed with the finest equipment imported from the US, the UK and Japan is complimented by a carefully curated selection of…
(10 March 2016) On March 1, the National Diet Library released music manuscripts and documents related to modern Japanese composers. Now, approximately 600 items in the collection of composer Hikaru HAYASHI (1931-2012) are available. Advance reservation is required to use music manuscripts. Materials already digitized are available only in digitized form to preserve the originals.…
(25 February 2016, Singapore) Singtel today launched Singtel Music, the first service in Singapore to offer customers music from popular providers like Spotify, KKBOX, AMPed and MeRadio, with zero local data charges. Customers can add Singtel Music to their mobile plan for a fee to get a premium account from either Spotify, KKBOX, or AMPed…
(27 November 2015) A huge public vinyl library has just opened in the South Korean capital of Seoul, containing 10,000 records, 3,000 books, every issue of Rolling Stone magazine published since 1967 and a performance space. Members of the public can listen to music the using the library’s record players. Visit the profusely illustrated Music Library website (in…
The Bodleian Libraries’ outstanding collection of 1.3 million maps and half a million printed music scores can now be discovered by searching SOLO, the Libraries’ online catalogue. (27 October 2015) The Libraries’ maps and music collections are among the largest and most important of their kind in the UK but, until now, records for the…