Music

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

  Index of international publications on music and other performance arts, such as dance. Includes a variety of publication types including journal articles, ethnographic recordings, and reviews. Relevant for research on performance studies, education, literature, and more.

• JSTOR

  Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.

• Project MUSE

  Access to journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.

• RISM

  Search for information on musical sources and composers - manuscripts primarily date between the years 1600 and 1850. RISM contains over 1.1 million records for musical sources: music manuscripts, printed music, libretti, and treatises that are held in music libraries, archives, churches, private collections, and other institutions around the world.

• Oxford Music Online

  Integrated music resource including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Provides links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations.
• Music Online

  Allows one to search across all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press, including: African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, World Music Online, Opera in Video and more.
• Music Online: American Music

  Songs covering all eras of American history from the Revolutionary War to twentieth-century anti-war protests; extensive liner notes included

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  Jazz Times JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970.
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  American Music Teacher Provides articles, reviews and regular columns that inform, educate and challenge music teachers and foster excellence in the music teaching profession.
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  Journal of the American Musicological Society One of the premier journals in musicology, Journal of the American Musicological Society publishes scholarship from a broad array of musical inquiry: from historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, iconography and organology, to pedagogy, performance practice, aesthetics and hermeneutics, ethnomusicology, gender and sexuality, popular music, and cultural studies. --from journal homepage

• AfricaBib A collection of Africana social science titles consisting of 2 bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature.

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• BASE A search engine for academic web resources - includes journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. Many open access resources.
• Digital Public Library of America DPLA materials come from America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of these are freely available and include; photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, etc.

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• Directory of Open Access Journals Access to quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering a range of topics and languages.

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• Dissertations and Thesis - Open Access (Proquest) Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.

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• Open Book Publishers Find peer-reviewed open access books in a variety of subjects.

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