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  • The gateway to Grove Music Online, with access to search The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music
  • The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history and cultures of music around the globe

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Postcoloniality and Decoloniality

Read the Grove Music Online entry on Postcoloniality and Decoloniality, newly written by Jessica Swanston Baker as part of Grove Musics in Global Perspective

Maria Xaveria Perucona

Read the Grove Music Online entry on Maria Xaveria Perucona, newly written by Candace Smith as part of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Project.

This month, Grove Music Online published 9 new, 81 updated and revised entries, and refreshed data for 3 entries and images. Learn more about the author update program and how you can get involved. 

Explore the full list of what has been recently published and revised on Grove Music Online.

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Update Grove Music Online

Have you ever wondered how Grove is updated? Read about our many projects.

Find out more about Grove’s author updating program, UpdateGMO. Are you a Grove contributor who wants to update your article(s)? Let us know.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Update Project

This project entails the revising, updating, and expanding of Grove’s coverage and inclusion of women and people of LGBTQ+ identities.

Ibero-Latin Update Project

Under the editorship of Walter A. Clark, this multi-year project expands Grove’s coverage in this exciting area of music making.

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Grove Musics in Global Perspective

GMGP includes all musics of the world as its subject matter, wherein the traditional interdisciplinarity of ethnomusicology is brought into conversation with more recent fields such as sound studies.

 

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APRIL 23, 2025

What’s New in April 2025

This month, Grove Music Online published 9 new, 81 updated and revised entries, and refreshed data for 3 entries and images. Learn more about the author update program and how you can get involved.

MARCH 24, 2025

What’s New in March 2025

This month, Grove Music Online published 1 new, 100 updated and revised entries, and refreshed data for 1,014 entries and images. Additionally, we updated the structure of 93 entries as part of a project to increase discoverability. Learn more about the author update program and how you can get involved.

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

What’s New in February 2025

This month, Grove Music Online published 1 new, 89 updated and revised entries, and refreshed data for 41 entries and images. Additionally, we updated the structure of 91 entries as part of a project to increase discoverability. Learn more about the author update program and how you can get involved.