Music 301: History of Rock and Roll: Articles/Databases
About articles
Articles are collected into journals, magazines, newspapers, and other types of "periodicals" that are produced on a regular basis, or "periodically." Most databases let you select or limit to scholarly or academic articles or publications, as well as dissertations, conference reports, etc.
- Music Articles in RILM PowerPoint tutorialClick the speaker icon in the upper right of each slide for audio.
Music-specific articles & encyclopedias
- Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowMusic Periodicals Database covers all aspects of music, including genre, music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms, and composition in both scholarly and popular music journals.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowscholarly material in many languages on all aspects of music & related fields. Also includes dissertations: then use WorldCat to request Doc Delivery from other libraries.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowIncludes: dictionaries, articles about music genres, styles, & history, composers, musicians, & instruments.
General Databases
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowfor U.S. and Canadian music topics or bands
- Biography Index Past and Present This link opens in a new windowLists articles and books about musicians.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowfor non-U.S. / non-Canadian music topics or bands
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowThe Music Collection contains the full text of scholarly research & theory journals.
Search tips for finding articles
- use "quotation marks" around phrases
- truncate - shorten a word to its trunk or root to get alternate endings - with an asterisk * (shift 8), e.g., truncat* finds truncate, truncated, truncation
- apply Boolean connector AND to combine unlike ideas, e.g., dance AND promotion
- apply Boolean connector OR to connect synonyms, e.g., advertisements OR campaigns
Put it all together:
- "hip hop dance" in one box
- AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns) in the next box
- use parentheses in single-box searching - when you don't have another set of boxes, e.g.,:
- "hip hop dance" AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns)
Use the left or right menus to narrow your results, e.g., by language, date, subject, etc.
Databases have a citation (information about an article such as the title, author, name of the journal or magazine, volume and issue (which correspond to the date), date, and pages) and sometimes they will also contain an abstract, or summary, of the article.
Databases also often cite multiple types of resources - books, essays or chapters, government documents, etc.
Some databases will also have the complete item (called the full text): you should see a link to an HTML or PDF document. Or click on - this will check the other library databases for the full text of the article.
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