International Bibliography of Discographies
The International Bibliography of Discographies (IBD) is a searchable e-resource containing entries for current and historical works of discography. The focus is on commercial published recordings, but discographies of unpublished recordings, transcription discs and field recordings are also included in the bibliography. In the database you will find label, artist, genre and national discographies in multiple languages and formats (books, articles, CD-ROMs, PDFs, websites & databases). We have also included, when available, unpublished work in progress. Each entry in the IBD corresponds to one work of discography, whether originally a print journal article or a large online database.
In addition to discographies, we have chosen to incorporate two other types of sources into the database, given their value for record research:
- record company catalogs
- periodicals known to include discographies
The brief display for each entry includes title, author, publication date and a note about the work’s availability (or a link to a fully digitized version). Brief entries link to more detailed information and an annotation for each item. To assist researchers, we have created a Digital Discography Collection at the Internet Archive to host discographies that contributors or members of our team have digitized as part of the project. When an entry has a corresponding digital version in this collection, it will have the following logo:
Key to entries:
Discographies
Record company catalogs
Periodicals
Submit entries to the IBD using the form on our home page. New entries will be reviewed by our editorial team & posted within two weeks.
*The IBD was created in 2017 by the Discography Committee of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA). It is now a collaborative project with individual and institutional contributors around the world. Our work has been supported by IASA, Harvard University and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (DKRVO 2018/47, National Museum, 00023272).
Title ↑ ↓ | Author(s) ↑ ↓ | Publication Year ↑ ↓ | Availability/Digital version ↑ ↓ | |
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![]() | A British discography of wildlife sound | Boswall, Jeffery | 1969 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A catalogue of Sterling cylinder records | Carter, Sydney , Andrews, Frank, Watts, Leonard L. | 1975 | Not Available |
![]() | A Catalogue of Tape and Gramophone Records of Australasian Region Bird Sound | Boswall, Jeffery | 1965 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A Complete Discography of the Flonzaley Quartet | Samuels, Jon | 1987 | arsc-audio.org |
![]() | A complete list of Persian Polyphon records 1927/1928 | Mansour, Amir | September, 2007 | oirvm.ir |
![]() | A Discography of 78 RPM Era Recordings of the Horn: Solo and Chamber Literature with Commentary | McBeth, Amy | 1997 | Available for Purchase |
![]() | A discography of amphibian sounds | Kettle, Ron, Boswall, Jeffery | 1981 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A Discography of Bird Sound from the Antarctic | Boswall, Jeffery, Prytherch, Robin J. | 1969 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A discography of bird sound from the Ethiopian zoogeographical region | Boswall, Jeffery, Kettle, Ron | 1975 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A discography of bird sound from the Ethiopian zoogeographical region | Boswall, Jeffery, North, Myles E. W. | 1967 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A Discography of Bird Sound from the Nearctic Region | Boswall, Jeffery, Kettle, Ron | 1974 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A discography of bird sound from the Neotropical region | Boswall, Jeffery, Freeman, W.P. | 1974 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A Discography of Gospel Records 1937-1971 | Hayes, Cedric J. | 1973 | Available at the Klaus-Kuhnke-Archiv für Populäre Musik, http://www.kkarchiv.de |
![]() | A discography of Hindustani and Karnatic music | Kinnear, Michael S. | 1985 | Available for Purchase |
![]() | A Discography of Insect Sounds | Kettle, Ron | 1984 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A Discography of Jack Pettis and His Orchestra | Venables, R. G. V. | November, 1948 | Not Available |
![]() | A discography of Palearctic amphibian sound recordings | Boswall, Jeffery | 1966 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A discography of Palearctic insect sound recordings | Boswall, Jeffery | 1966 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A discography of Palearctic mammal sound recordings | Boswall, Jeffery | 1966 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A Discography of Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll Vocal Groups, 1945-1965 | Ferlingere, Robert D. | 1976 | Available at the Klaus-Kuhnke-Archiv für Populäre Musik, http://www.kkarchiv.de |
![]() | A Discography of Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll, circa 1946-1964 | Leichter, Albert | 1975 | Available at the Klaus-Kuhnke-Archiv für Populäre Musik, http://www.kkarchiv.de |
![]() | A discography of Soviet wildlife sound | Boswall, Jeffery | 1979 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A Discography of the Harvard Vocarium | Packard, Josephine | Fall-Winter 2004 | nrs.harvard.edu |
![]() | A Discography of Ward Pinkett | McCarthy, Albert J. | March 1949 | Not Available |
![]() | A Fonotipia fragmentia | Andrews, Frank | 2002 | Not Available |
![]() | A global discography of mammal sound | Kettle, Ron, Boswall, Jeffery | 1977 | Available at the British Library |
![]() | A Gregorian chant discography | Weber, Jerome F. | 1990 | Out-of-print but used copies sometimes available |
![]() | A handbook of film, theater, and television music on record, 1948-1969 | Smolian, Steven | 1970 | Not Available (out-of-print) |
![]() | A history of marketing of sound recordings in Britain,1890-1903 | Andrews, Frank | 2012 | Available for Purchase |
![]() | A Chronologic Jan Peerce Discography 1931-1982 | Pinta, Emil R. | 1998 | archive.org ![]() |