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Widely Accessed Non-Music Databases with
Important Music Content—Overview and Searching Tips
Presented byDarwin F. Scott
Creative Arts Librarian, Brandeis Universityfor the
New England Music Library (NEMLA)Spring Meeting
at NELINET (Southborough, MA)April 29, 2005
KEY NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
WITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT
Five Examples:• LexisNexis Academic
• America: History and Life
• Historical Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts
• American National Biography
WHY?
• Can be more current than music citation sources.
• Journals not indexed in music citation sources.
• Interdisciplinary.
• Newspaper coverage.
• Way to get around electronic music resources you don’t have.
LexisNexis Academic
• Among its many features, offers full-text of 350+ newspapers and 300+ magazines and journals from the U.S. and around the world—many the same day of publication
• Includes extensive archives—for example:– Boston Globe, 1994– – New York Times, 1980–– Washington Post, 1970–– Billboard, 1991–– Variety, 1993–
• Extremely useful for:– locating performance reviews – information on contemporary composers– feature articles on performers– popular culture and music — popular music– world music
LexisNexis Academic: News — Homepage
LexisNexis Academic: News — “Formula” for Searching Concert Reviews, Music and Popular Culture, World Music, etc.
Tips on how to fill in the boxes:
Step One — News category: Arts & Sports News Step Two — Select a news source: Entertainment news or Book, movie, music, & play reviews
Step Three — Enter search terms: select Full Text (rather than Headline, Lead Paragraph, etc.)
Use and between search words, such as music and globalization or klezmer and jazz or metropolitan and parsifal.Put quotes around expressions, such as "popular music" or "united states" — combine as "popular music" and "united states".Wild cards: * for each letter; ? for indeterminate number of letters.
Step Four — Select the appropriate date range (default Previous six months is usually too narrow)
Step Five (optional) — Limit the publication (New York Times, Boston Globe, etc.) — enter automatically from Source List link next to Step Two box.
LexisNexis Academic: News — Search for Peru Negro
Step One — News category: Arts & Sports News Step Two — Select a news source: Entertainment news or Book, move, music, & play reviews
Step Three — Enter search terms: “peru negro” — select Full Text
Step Four — Select the appropriate date range: Previous five years
Step Five (optional) — Limit the publication — left blank
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
LexisNexis Academic: News — Search on Peru Negro, Sorted by Date
Listings interfile with more substantive articles
and reviews.
LexisNexis Academic: News — Search on Peru Negro, Sorted by Relevance
More substantive articles tend to fall at the top of the list.
LexisNexis Academic: News —Peru Negro Article in the Miami New Times
E-mail option
America: History and Life
• ABC-Clio product.• Provides bibliographic references with abstracts to
the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
• Articles date back to 1954.• Reasonably up to date; April 28 search showed 557
citations to 2005 publications.• Covers 2,000+ journals published worldwide. • In addition to covering all key English-language
historical journals, includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
• Includes citations for dissertations and book and media reviews.
America: History and LifeA Few Searching Tips
• Use quotation marks around phrases.
• Boolean AND is default between search words.
• Truncation: * = multiple letters; ? = single letter. (Exactly the opposite of LexisNexis! Lesson here: always check the truncation symbols for each product; there is little consistency across databases.)
America: History and Life — Homepage
America: History and Life — Mozart [and] Franklin Search
s
Latest hit on Mozart and Franklin in RILM is 1996!
Brandeis SFX link
America: History and Life — Output Options
America: History and Life — Mozart [and] Franklin Search — Following the SFX Link
s
Clicking leads to:
America: History and Life — Mozart [and] Franklin Search — Full Text of Article via PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
America: History and Life — Hip-Hop / Rap Music Search
Keyword Search: (hip-hop or hiphop or “rap music”)
and music
Eliminated books from search.
America: History and Life — Hip-Hop / Rap Music Search Results — First 8 of 54, with Sample Subjects from Full Records
Subject: California (Los Angeles).Music.Ethnic identity.Akwid (musical group).Mexican Americans.
Subject: Rap music.Music.Social networks.
Subject:Psychoanalysis.Death and Dying.Music.Rap music.Real (term).Hip-hop.Shakur, Tupac.
Subject:Rap music.Popular Culture.Political Commentary.Music.Internationalism.Hip-hop.
Subject:Religion.Rap music.Music.Blacks.Black Nationalism.
Historical Abstracts
• ABC-Clio product.• The “rest of the world” equivalent of
America: History and Life—covers 1450 to the present—but completeness of world coverage controlled by the journals indexed.
• Published since 1954.• Covers 2,000+ key historical journals
published worldwide as well as a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history
• Also selected books and dissertations.
Historical Abstracts — Homepage
Historical Abstracts — User Options
Historical Abstracts — Search Limiters
Historical Abstracts — Search for Subject Jazz [and] France
Historical Abstracts — French Jazz Search Results
Subject: Jazz.Hot Club de France.France.Blacks.Americans.
Subject: National Self-image.Jazz.France (Paris).Debates.
Subject: Popular Culture.Jazz.France (Paris).
Historical Abstracts — Early Music 2004–2005 Search
Historical Abstracts — Early Music 2004-2005 Search
Sociological Abstracts —Some Music / Interdisciplinary
Topics
• Popular culture• Popular music and society• Mass media• Ethnic issues• Women and music• Entertainment industry
Sociological Abstracts — Homepage
Default is Relevance — you may want to change to Date (descending order)
Sociological Abstracts — Rap Music Search
Sociological Abstracts — Rap Music Search
Sociological Abstracts — Rap Music Search — Sample Record
American National Biography
American National Biography: Music — Occupations and Realms of Renown
Comb Players
Cornetists Fiddlers Flugelhorn Players Flutists Guitarists Harmonica Players Harpsichordists Horn Players Keyboard Players Oboists Organists Percussionists Pianists Saxophonists Sitar Players Trombonists Trumpeters Vibraharpists Violinists Violists
Types of Music and Singing Blues Musicians / Singers Cantors Chanters Concert Singers Country Musicians / Singers Folk Musicians / Singers Gospel Musicians / Singers Jazz Musicians Jazz Singers Opera Singers Popular Singers Ragtime Musicians Reggae Musicians Rhythm and Blues Musicians / Singers Rock Musicians / Singers Soul Musicians / Singers Western Swing Musicians
Radio and Television Disc Jockeys Radio / Television Engineers Radio / Television Personalities Radio / Television Producers / Directors Radio / Television Writers Religious Broadcasters
Theater and Live Entertainment Acrobats Burlesque Performers Circus Performers Clowns Comedians Costume Designers Cowboys Daredevils Impersonators Magicians Midgets Mimes Minstrel Show Performers Monologuists Orators Puppeteers Rodeo Performers Sharpshooters Siamese Twins Stage / Screen Actors Theatrical Designers Theatrical Producers / Directors Toastmasters Vaudeville Performers
Ventriloquists
Performing Arts
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American National Biography—Andrews Sisters
American National Biography—Andrews Sisters, continued
OTHER NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
WITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT
Note: I have tested all of these resources for music content; coverage varies, but if used with limited expectations,
the results can often be surprising and retrieve materials not found in the standard music resources.
List is based on what is available from Brandeis University.
American Music (through 1876)• Early American Newspapers, 1690–1876 (Readex)
Asian Music• Bibliography of Asian Studies
Eastern European Music• American Bibliography of Slavic and East
European Studies Greek and Roman Music
• L’année philologique
OTHER NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
WITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT
Jewish Music• Index to Jewish Periodicals
Latin American Music• Handbook of Latin American Studies Online• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Music Aesthetics• Philosopher’s Index
Music and Medecine• PubMed (Medline)
Music and Society (Popular Culture)• Social Science Abstracts
Music Cognition• CogNet (MIT Press)
OTHER NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
WITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT
Music Education• Education Index
Psychology of Music• PsycINFO or PsycARTICLES
Women and Music• Contemporary Women’s Issues• Women’s Studies International
World Music / Ethnomusicology• Anthropology Plus (Eureka; combines
Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature)
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