- Academic Charts Online
Academic
Charts Online (ACO) is a database that compiles popular music chart
data about albums and singles from the Americas, Europe, and some Asian
territories. Data is provided by Billboard, The Official Charts Company,
and other sources. Sophisticated tools allow you to compare charting
positions by artist, title (singles and albums), countries in which
titles charted, label, and more. ACO also includes instant links to
leading popular music journals, including the Journal of Popular Music
Studies, Popular Music, and Popular Music and Society; and databases
such as RILM and Rock's Backpages.
- Academic Search Complete
This
scholarly collection offers full text coverage of information in many
areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy,
biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic
and multicultural studies, food science and technology, general science,
geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music,
physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other
fields.
- African American Music Reference
African
American Music Reference brings together 50,000 pages of text
reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner
notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and
culture of the African American experience through music. The database
is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues,
jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm
and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
- American Song
Hear
and feel the music from America's past right up to recent additions
including Motown, Jimi Hendrix, the Mamas and the Papas, and other
artists from the rock era. There are songs by and about American
Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys;
songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, the Revolutionary War, and
the Civil War; and every great American genre is here—from folk and
blues to country, gospel, and rock.
- AP Images
AP
Images is one of the world's largest collections of historical and
contemporary imagery. The AP Images collection is updated every minute
of the day and includes entertainment, fashion, news and sports coverage
from The Associated Press and a diverse selection of content partners.
Coverage: 1826 -
- ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid
is a collection of nearly two million archival material descriptions,
including MARC records from WorldCat and finding aids harvested from the
web. Archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums,
historical societies, and archives are represented in ArchiveGrid. Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Library and Archives material can be
found here.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Index
and cited references for articles in the arts and humanities. The
database covers 1,144 arts and humanities journals and individually
selected, relevant items from over 6,800 science and social science
journals.
- Biography Reference Bank
Provides
biographical information on approximately half a million people, from
antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
- Business Source Complete
Covers
3,200 scholarly business journals in all disciplines of business,
including marketing, management, accounting, finance, international
business, econometrics and economics. Good for researching the business
of music.
- Contemporary World Music
Delivering
the sounds of many regions from every continent, this collection
contains reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic
jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical,
fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
An
archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for
studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the
era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK
trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all
included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles.
Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color,
with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive
online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.
More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than
700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most
complete body of work focused on world music.
- International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
This
database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred
international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text
for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently
includes over 770,000 records, the majority from the most recent ten
years of publication.
- LexisNexis Academic
Wide
range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information from
nearly 5,000 sources. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire
services, federal and state court opinions, statutes, federal
regulations, and SEC filings. News updated daily, wire services several
times a day.
- MLA International Bibliography
Provides
a classified listing and subject index for books and articles published
on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. This
database annually indexes over 50,000 journal articles, books, and
dissertations.
- Music Index
A
comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring
digitized content from 1970 to present. Contains cover-to-cover indexing
and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music
industry for more than 480 periodicals, as well as book reviews,
obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 200 periodicals.
Comprehensive coverage of the music field makes Music Index an
invaluable resource for both scholar and novice.
- Music Online
Music
Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource
that cross-searches all of the Alexander Street Press music databases.
These include African American Music Reference, American Song,
Contemporary World Music, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Online, Jazz Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound, and more.
- Newspaper Source
Selected
full text for 28 national (U.S.) and international newspapers,
including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post,
The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selected full
text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston
Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald,
The New York Daily News, The San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition,
full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS
News, FOX News, NPR, etc.
- Oxford Music Online
Oxford
Music Online is the access point for Grove Music Online, The Oxford
Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music. Other products
offered here are not part of our subscription.
- Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
Popular
Culture explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural
change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of color
images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs,
ephemera, and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent
history. The Library and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
Museum contributed over 7,000 items from its collections to the project.
The database allows you to explore an interactive chronology to learn a
wealth of fascinating facts, take a tour of the site's visual
resources, and watch video footage to experience the spectacular sights
and sounds of the period for yourself.
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I
This
database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations
and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day.
- RILM Abstracts of Musical Literature
Comprehensive
international guide to writings about music. Covers articles from more
than 5,200 journals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations,
reviews, and catalogs in over 100 languages.
- Rock's Backpages
Rock’s
Backpages is the largest database of rock journalism online, featuring
17,000+ articles on numerous artists. The archive draws on numerous
publications from Creem and Trouser Press to Rolling Stone, and from New
Musical Express and MelodyMaker to MOJO. It is fully searchable by
artist, genre, writer or keyword (allowing search by album or single
title, date, etc). Rock's Backpages also features a library of over 100
audio interviews.
- RoJaRo
The
world's largest free music magazine index covering rock - jazz - roots
music - blues - country - rap - soul - folk-latin - gospel - metal -
psychedelic - reggae - punk - world music - salsa - afropop - pop - film
music-progressive - dance - techno - electronica - avant garde - ska -
r&b - exotica - house - etc. Also including music magazine, fanzine
& record label information.
- Safari Tech Books Online
This
database offers electronic books relating to a multitude of subjects,
but music specific resources include copyright, the music business, and
the recording industry.
- Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian
Global Sound includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections
of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk,
Monitor, Paredon and other labels.
- WorldCat
Catalog
containing more than 57 million records describing books and other
items owned by libraries around the world. Materials covered are books,
manuscripts, websites and internet resources, maps, computer programs,
musical scores, films and slides, newspapers journals and
magazines,sound recordings, videotapes. Each record contains information
on which libraries own the item. Updated daily. Covers earliest print
materials to the present.
Peter Gabriel al tempo dei Genesis...
... e nell'emanazione successiva
Lista di tutti coloro che sono entrati a far parte della Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (in ordine alfabetico - da 'A' come ABBA agli ZZ Top!):
http://rockhall.com/inductees/alphabetical/
