Popular Music
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Facts behind the songs : a handbook of American popular music from the nineties to the '90s
ARIA yearbook / Record Industry Association
Australasian music industry directory
Books
Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:
M1627 - 1844 Popular and folk music (Scores and recordings)
ML3469 - 3541 Popular music - general
ML3506 Jazz music
ML3521 Blues music
ML3534 Rock music
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Key databases
Rock & Roll, counterculture, peace and protest
Contains materials about popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. from 1950 to 1975.
Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more that 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
A database established to convert back issues of paper journals into electronic format in core fields. The JSTOR archive of digitised full text journals does not include current issues.
An online database of rock music writing, with material dating from the early 1960s to the present day. The library of articles includes reviews, interviews and features, which are fully searchable and presented in full-text.
Includes journals, magazines and newspapers on a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Includes two subsets: Academic research newspapers (including the New York Times and the Wall Street journal) and Academic research periodicals.
The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features.
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