Library Research Guides: Z204 Women Musicians: Popular Music/Non-Classical Research

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Encyclopedia of Popular Music Online (provided by Oxford)
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A general, interdisciplinary database. Some full-text, some stuff to be ordered through interlibrary loan.
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Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
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Great for popular music: pop, hip-hop, rock, country, jazz. Some full-text available, interlibrary loan for what isn't available.
Music Periodicals Database covers a range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Articles examine a spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theater, theory, popular music forms and composition.
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Z204 Women Musicians

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