HSS 202

General Information

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Background Information

Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online is the online form of the definitive music dictionary
Provides basic information on more well-known bands and artists.

Article Databases

Academic Search Premier

Use to find articles from magazines and journals, some dating back to the 1960s.

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text

Includes indexing and abstracting of over 375 international music periodicals.
Includes full text from about 26 scholarly music journals

RILM Music Abstracts

The largest database of citations to music, covering over 3,000 journals in over 200 languages

New York Times Historical

Covers the New York Times from 1851-three years ago

America: History and Life

ABELL

Indexes Playboy 1968-2004
Jackson Library has a print index for 1968-1978

Journals

These are individual magazines and popular music journals that are not indexed by one of the sources above. You can usually do a keyword search within these titles. Ask Amy if you have questions.

Journal of Popular Music Studies 9/1/1997-present
Popular Music 1981-2001
Popular Music 2000-present
American Music 1983-2004
Time 1923-present

No Depression archives- 1995-2008

If you have a particular newspaper, journal, or magazine in mind, you can search for it using Journal Finder.

Library Catalog

Search for books and music in Jackson and the Music Libraries, as well as videos in the Teaching and Learning Center.
Use the search connector "and" to do a keyword search for more than one term

WorldCat

Use this to find books that are available at libraries around the world.
You can request these books through Interlibrary Loan, but remember that it takes 1-2 weeks to receive (less if it can be found at a library nearby)

Searching the Web

Search the Web
A selection of search engines and directories that can help you find the information you need.

Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources
Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material. From our online tutorial Finding It!.

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