Music Research Databases
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (via Web of Science) This link opens in a new window Indexing and abstracts of millions of peer-reviewed articles in the arts and humanities disciplines. Also includes book chapters, conference papers and other formats. Cited and citing reference searching.
- Musical America This link opens in a new window Contains international industry news, all contact information and articles.
- Music Index Online This link opens in a new window Music Index Online covers topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music. Dates of coverage: 1979-present.
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive: Music This link opens in a new window A series of digital collections focused on 20th and 21st century music genres such as Rock, Folk, Hip-Hop, and Rap. This collection contains 1,461 issues comprising 100,696 pages and 91,441 articles. Note: Oberlin only has access to Music Magazine Archive through this platform, not the full Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive.
- Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) International association for the recording and development of music and dance performances in the field of visual arts and crafts.
- RILM Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive music bibliography providing international coverage of music literature. Dates of coverage: 1775 to the present.
- RIPM Jazz Periodicals This link opens in a new window RIPM Jazz Periodicals is a collection of 105 American full-text jazz journals and magazines published. Developed in collaboration with the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and partner libraries, RIPM Jazz Periodicals is an essential documentary resource that chronicles American jazz culture as seen through the eyes of its contemporaries. (Dates of coverage: 1914-2000)
- RIPM – With Full Text This link opens in a new window Citations to articles in scholarly and popular music periodicals. Contains more than 500,000 entries. Dates of Coverage: 1800 and 1950
- RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales This link opens in a new window An international, cooperative effort to identify and describe the world's pre-1850 musical sources, to record what primary sources exist, and to identify their locations. These sources include manuscripts or printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti.
Africana Databases that Contain Music Information
- African American Periodicals (1825-1995) This link opens in a new window More than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans, published in 26 states. Includes academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, bulletins, annual reports and more.
- African Journals Online This link opens in a new window Use African Journals OnLine (AJOL) to find articles written by scholars on the continent of Africa. Although there are not many articles on the art of Africa it is still an important place to check.
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window Covers the Black experience from ancient Africa to the modern day from perspectives in history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, music, visual arts, and religion. Also includes the full text backfile (1935 to 1975) of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender.
- Oxford African American Studies Center This link opens in a new window African American and African history and culture including biographies, topical entries, primary source documents with commentary, images, maps, charts, tables, and more.
- Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window Authoritative guide to reliable peer-reviewed resources and scholarship in African Studies, Buddhism, Chinese Studies, Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Medieval Studies, and Political Science. Bibliographies are selectively curated and annotated by expert academics and offer high-level overviews that provide non-experts with a point of entry into unfamiliar areas of study.
Databases Good for All Subjects
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary - good for nearly all subjects. Scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, newspapers, conference proceedings, book reviews, and more.
- OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center ( EJC) This link opens in a new window Scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences,and natural sciences, as well as engineering.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window Scholarly journal archive for the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences; current issues (usually the last 2-5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I This link opens in a new window Citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses on all subjects from around the world. Previews and full text available for some titles.
- Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982) This link opens in a new window Indexing of articles in historical American popular magazines of all types.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window Scholarly literature in the sciences, health and medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities and proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions. Includes cited reference searching across many databases. Search all databases in Web of Science (includes Medline and BIOSIS, direct link for on-campus users). Dates of coverage: 1965 to present.
Encyclopedias
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by
Explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years-a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage emphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations isolated from other performing traditions presents the fresh insights and analyses of musicologists and anthropologists of diverse national origins-African, Asian, European, and American Charts the flow and influence of music. The Encyclopedia also charts the musical interchanges that followed the movement of people and ideas across the continent, including: cross-regional musical influences throughout Africa * Islam and its effect on African music * spread of guitar music * Kru mariners of Liberia * Latin American influences on African music * musical interchanges in local contexts * crossovers between popular and traditional practices. Audio CD included. Also includes nine maps and 96 music examples.
Call Number: Con Ref ML100 .G16 1997 v.1-10ISBN: 0824060350Publication Date: 1997
- Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window Online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.
The Grove Dictionary of American Music by
Articles range from small definitions of dance styles and musical terms to mid-length biographies of important performers, composers and music patrons, to longer examinations of larger subjects such as the history of jazz, musical instruments, music education in the United States, and the American history of the orchestra.
Call Number: Con Ref ML101.U6 N48 2013ISBN: 9780199739257Publication Date: 2013-01-01
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by
Since its initial publication in 1980, the Dictionary has been widely acclaimed as an indispensable resource and a classic reference. The word "updated" doesn't begin to describe the thousands of new articles, topics, cross-references, and areas of scholarship incorporated into The New GroveII. Every one of the first edition's 22,500 articles has been reviewed and revised, with thousands of articles expanded. Previously neglected or under-represented areas have been examined, explored, and explained. Movements and topics once deemed too controversial or too far from the mainstream havebeen added. And throughout, 6,500 new articles cover more than 5,000 years of music history, instruments, composers, institutions, performers, genres, and more.The New Grove II takes you beyond the customary and familiar into new worlds with extensive, authoritative contributions on non-Western music. From major influences, such as Latin American music, to less-examined contributions, such as Asian, sub-Saharan African, and Pacific Islander, The New GroveII presents the music, theory, instruments, and musicians that have helped to define music around the world.
Call Number: Con Ref ML100 .N48 2001ISBN: 1561592390Publication Date: 2003-02-11
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General eReference Resources
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Gale Virtual Reference LibraryHandbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias in a wide range of subject areas, including Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Sciences.
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Oxford ReferenceHundreds of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
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Oxford DictionariesAuthoritative and comprehensive English bilingual dictionaries online for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
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Oxford Digital Reference ShelfBrings together nearly 200 language and subject reference works in a single cross-searchable resource. Subject areas include: Art & Architecture, Biological Sciences, Classics, Computing, Environmental Sciences, Economics, History, Law, Literature, Maps, Medicine, Military History, Mythology & Folklore, Names & Places, Performing Arts, Physical Sciences & Mathematics, Politics & Social Sciences, Quotations, Religion & Philosophy, Science.
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Oxford Research EncyclopediasDesigned to be an authoritative resource of reference content in a wide array of academic fields, including the humanities, social sciences, and science.
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Sage KnowledgeDictionaries, encyclopedias, guides and handbooks from a range of social science fields.
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Very Short IntroductionsProvides concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects. Subject categories include: Arts and humanities, Law, Medicine and health, Science and mathematics, Social sciences.
Research Guides
- Black Composers in LC Music Division Collections
This guide introduces performers, conductors, and researchers to resources from the Music Division of the Library Congress to help them discover concert music by Black composers. - Black Music History Library
A collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day. - Exploring the Aesthetics of African-American Classical Music: An Annotated Bibliography by Chris JenkinsThis annotated bibliography addresses the history and aesthetics of “classical” music compositions by African-American composers .
- Music by Black Composers: An Introductory Resource,
This repertoire guide was created by studio faculty chairs and other leaders in the Music Division at Juilliard. This well-researched list of Black composers' works seeks to create a more representative classical music world.
A Catalog of Music Written in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr by
This third edition contains a considerable number of revisions, updates, and new work and includes entirely new sections devoted to jazz and blues songs, sample programs of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day concerts, and a discography, along with appendixes of works listed by orchestration, subject, and a list of publishers and sources.
Call Number: Con Ref ML128.B45 C38 2012ISBN: 9780810881983Publication Date: 2011
Ethnomusicology: A Research and Information Guide by
An annotated bibliography of books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of ethnomusicology.
Call Number: Con Ref ML128.E8 P67 2011ISBN: 0415879779Publication Date: 2011
An Annotated Catalog of Composers of African Ancestry by Call Number: Con Ref ML128.B45 C3 1986ISBN: 0533066131Publication Date: 1986-03-01Bibliography of Black Music by Product information no v. 1. Reference materials.--v. 2. Afro-American idioms.--v. 3. Geographical studies.--v. 4. Theory, education, and related studies
Call Number: Con Ref ML128.B45D44 v.1-4ISBN: 0313213402Publication Date: 1981-04-30- Black concert and recital music, a provisional repertoire list by Call Number: Con Ref ML128.N4D4Publication Date: 1975Black concert and recital music.
Black Music and Musicians in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and the New Harvard Dictionary of Music by Call Number: Con Ref ML128.B45 D443 1989ISBN: 0929911008Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Black Music in the United States by Call Number: Con Ref ML128.B45 F6 1983ISBN: 0527301647Publication Date: 1983-05-01
Blacks in Classical Music by Call Number: Con Ref ML128.B45 G7 1988ISBN: 0313260567Publication Date: 1988-06-20
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