http://www.lib.utk.edu/studio/documentaries/Home.html Tuesday, February 24, Hodges Library Auditorium at 7:00pm This week’s documentary is “Hank Wiliams: Honky Tonk Blues”, which will be followed by a discussion led by “The Drunk Uncles”, who will also perform.

Founded in 1954 by Hugh Tracey, ILAM is the greatest repository of African music in the world. A research institution devoted to the study of music and oral arts in Africa, it preserves thousands of historical recordings going back to 1929 and supports contemporary fieldwork. It is currently digitizing its collections. Its journal, African Music, … Continued

http://www.lib.utk.edu/studio/documentaries/Home.html Tuesday, February 10, Hodges Library Auditorium at 7:00pm This week’s documentary is Ken Burns’ “Jazz”, which will be followed by a discussion led by UT Music professor Keith Brown.  Also, a performance will be given by The Steve Karla Trio.

New books, scores, and multi-media resources purchased and received by the Music Library in January can be found at the following link: http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/acq/07-jan09.html

  “The neon above the door reads Ultra-Lounge. By walking through this door you step back into time. Not too far back. Just a few decades. Back to a time when “evolution” meant taking out the olive and putting in an onion. When Generation X was a secret atomic weapon aimed at the White House … Continued

http://www.lib.utk.edu/studio/documentaries/Home.html Tuesday, January 27, Hodges Library Auditorium at 7:00pm This week’s documentary is “Muddy Waters: Can’t Be Satisfied” and the discussion leader is UT’s own Hector Qirko, who will also perform.

The Music Library has adjusted its loan periods on all CDs, DVDs, and VHS tapes.  Any undergraduate student, graduate student, or UT staff may now check out three items of each type of audio-visual item for three days at a time.  Faculty continue to have no limit on the number of items they have out.

The Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance and Musical Theatre Call number: ML100 .Q44 2004 (Reference room) The volume covers primarily the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, and the subjects included are predominately, though certainly not exclusively, North American and Western European. Little Richard and Tchaikovsky, Dusty Springfield and Dame Ethel Smyth, Hildegard of Bingen and … Continued

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP). 2007-. http://www.imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page Available again after a period of downtime, this public domain score library wiki has approximately 4000 files. Entries are user submitted with some scores from composers that wish to share their music free of charge. You can browse by composer’s name, time period, work’s genre, as well … Continued

Come check out Holiday Resources in the George F. DeVine Music Library. Compact Discs M603.C5 Christmas with the Canadian Brass [sound recording] : and the great organ of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. M958.H6 H3 1987 Have yourself a merry little Christmas [sound recording] The Hollywood trombones. M1200.U745 S6 1993 Sounds of the season [sound recording] / the Command Band of the Airforce … Continued