musi120b

Selected Sources for
MUSI 120B—Music and Culture
April 10, 2003
Gail Egbers
535-8869 egbersgl@plu.edu

FINDING BOOKS: Our computerized catalog provides access to the materials in our library. Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings (large red books) to identify the best subject headings for your topic. Subject headings that may be relevant to your topic include:

Islamic Music
Ethnomusicology
Folk music—Ghana
Gypsies
Reggae music
Klezmer music
Mariachi

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers. Indexes relevant to your topic include:

Arts & Humanities Search (via PLU Library home page) Keyword and citation indexing of 1,300 leading international arts and humanities journals, 1980 to present. Some abstracts.

EBSCO (via PLU Library’s Website) A multi-disciplinary database that indexes roughly 4,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in full text. Of those, nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly (peer reviewed) publications. This academic database provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas - including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and education.

International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) (via PLU Library’s Website) Provides indexing and abstracts to over 370 currently published international music periodicals that cover nearly all aspects of the world of music. Also includes retrospective coverage from over 185 periodicals dating back as far as 1874.

Music Index. 1949- (ref.ML118.M84) A dictionary catalog with authors of articles, proper names, and subjects interfiled in one alphabetical list. Includes information about reviews, discographies, festivals, instruments, etc.

Music Index Online (via PLU Library Website) An index to more than 655 international music periodicals that cover musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

ProQuest (via Library Website) Provides access to several newspapers including the New York Times back to 1851.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 1969- (ref.ML118.R4) Indexes journals, books, and dissertations. Arranged in a classification system similar to library classification systems.

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Use Journals at PLU to obtain the call number of the journal you need. Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor. Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books. Journals at PLU also identifies any full-text journals we have available.

REFERENCE BOOKS

Baker's Biographical Dictionary Of Musicians (ref. ML105.B16 2000)
Baker's Biographical Dictionary Of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians (ref. ML105.S612 1997)
Dictionary Of Musical Technology (ref. ML102.E4C37 1992)
Garland Encyclopedia Of World Music (ref. ML100.G16 1998)
Guinness Encyclopedia Of Popular Music (ref. ML102.P66G84 1998)
Harvard Biographical Dictionary Of Music (ref. ML105.H38 1996)
Harvard Concise Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (ref. ML100.H36 1999)
International Dictionary Of Black Composers (ref. ML105.I5 1999)
Music Reference And Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography (ref. ML113.D83 1997)
Musical Terminology: A Practical Compendium In Four Languages (ref. ML108.B55 1999)
New Grove Dictionary Of American Music (ref. ML101.U6N48 1986)
New Grove Dictionary Of Music And Musicians (ref. ML100.N48 2001)
New Grove Dictionary Of Musical Instruments (ref. ML102.I5N48 1984)
Norton/Grove Dictionary Of Women Composers (ref. ML105.N66 1995)
Oxford Companion To Music (ref. ML100.S37 2002)
Oxford Companion To Popular Music (ref. ML102.P66G35 1991)
Women Composers: Music Through The Ages (ref. M2.W88 1996)
World Musicians (ref. ML385.W67 1999)

INTERNET

Music Research And Music Theory: (http://www.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/theory.html)
Music Research Sites: (http://www.music.fsu.edu/research.html)
PLU Music Link Page: (http://www.plu.edu/~libr/web/music.html)
UW Music Libraries Home Page: (http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/Music/dr/eltxt.html)

Gypsy Music: Selected Resources (http://www.dance.demon.co.uk/AGC/Articles/GypsyResources.html)
They Call themselves Roma (http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/feature/gypsy1.html)
About Reggae Music (http://www.bobartsinstitute.edu/Reggae.htm)
Klezmer Shack (http://www.klexmershack.com)
Puro Mariachi (http://www.mariachi.org/)

If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance. My office hours for spring are Tuesdays 11-1 and Thursdays 3-5.

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