Frequently Used Resources
The Allen Music Library has a wealth of resources on music of all types -- not just the usual western composers like Bach and Beethoven. If you need book-length information about a genre/style, here are some starting points:
Photo to the upper right: Head of the Allen Music Library, Laura Gayle Green's, father and family friends at a house jam in the early 1970s.
Finding journal articles on these topics (using Old-time music as an example):
Using RILM Abstracts to track down citations
Photo on the right: House jam in the 1940s or 1950s. Laura Gayle Green's uncle on fiddle and his cousin on banjo.
Provides analysis and trends for hit songwriting, focused on U.S. industry data and music genres.
Bloomsbury Popular Music provides unrivalled scholarly coverage of modern popular music worldwide, covering the mid-20th century to the present day music. Supports courses in ethnomusicology, the performing arts, media and communication, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology. Bloomsbury Sound Studies is the first digital resource to provide wide-ranging, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary scholarly content in the study of sound. Subject areas covered include art, aesthetics, architecture, contemporary music, history, philosophy, technology, and cultural studies and the growing literature of sonic and auditory theory, methodology, and practice.
The Jazz Discography encompasses all genres of jazz so as to include sessions by musicians who record across the various jazz disciplines, from traditional to avant-garde, from bebop to fusion. A true “general” jazz discography, it is the most complete catalog of recorded jazz ever published, presently covering over 450,000 jazz recordings released between 1896 and today.
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