HIST T325 History of Music in the United States 

General

Gale Virtual Reference Library

American Decades

• Cross-disciplinary source for researchers who need a single, consistent reference to document and analyze periods of contemporary American social history

St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture

Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure

• Comprehensive survey of these activities from the Colonial era to the present
• Examines how the pursuit of leisure has changed over time, reflecting shifting social, cultural, political and economic trends in the United States

Encyclopedia of American Social History, 3 vols. (Reference HN57 .E58 1993)

• Includes a section on popular culture and recreation with substantial articles on jazz, folk music, country and western and other musical forms

Literature of American Music in Books and Folk Music Collections, 1 vol. + Supplement (Reference ML120.U5 H7)

• Provides an annotated list of resources both primary and secondary

New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 4 vols. (Reference ML101.U6 N48 1986)

• Groves produces the most scholarly and respected encyclopedia articles in music

Music Resources

Dance Band and Swing

American Dance Band Discography, 1917-1942, 2 vols. (Reference ML156.4.P6 R87)

Simon Says: the Sights and Sounds of the Swing Era, 1935-1955 (Reference ML3561.J3 S535)

• Collection of essays written by George T. Simon for the Metronome.

Folk, Country and Western

Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western (Reference ML102.F66 S7 1982)

Folk Music in America: A Reference Guide (Reference ML128.F74 M5 1986)

• Provides an annotated list of books and articles.

Folk Music Sourcebook (Reference ML19 .S26)

• Provides a summary of folk music by type and lost of musicians and their works.

Folksongs of North America (Reference M1629.L83 F6 1960)

• Provides brief summaries of songs and some music scores.

Jazz

Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz (Reference ML156.4.J3 B66 1995)

Jazz Musicians 1945 to the Present (Reference ML394 .D53 2006)

• Provides biographical information and a discography

New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 3 vols. (Reference ML102.J3 N48 2001)

Sweet and Lowdown: America's Popular Song Writers (Reference ML106.U3 C75 1978)

Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street (Reference ML106.U3 C5 1978)

Musical Theatre

American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia (Reference ML102.M88 H59 1995)

American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion, 1877-1995, 2 vols. (Reference ML128.M78 B6 1996)

Broadway Song Companion: an Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style (Reference ML128.M78 D48 1998)

Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works by, About, or Involving African Americans (Reference ML102.M88 P37 1993)

Chronology of American Musical Theater, 3 vols. (Reference ML1711.8.N3 N67 2002)

Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre, 2 vols. (Reference ML102.M88 G3 1994)

Popular Music

American Song: The complete Companion to Tin Pan Alley Song, vol. 3 (Reference ML128.F63 B556 2001)

Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits (Reference ML156.4.P6 B76 2003)

• Provides every number one single on Billboard's Hot 100 from 1955 to the present.

Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4 vols. (Reference ML102.P66 G84 1972)

Popular Music: An Annotated Index of American Popular Songs, 11 vols. (Reference ML120.U5 S5)

• Arranged chronologically by year, 1920-1985,
• Provides the title of the song, the writer, singer and record label

Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide to Popular Music (Reference ML156.4.P6 G73 2002)

Rock and Roll

Encyclopedia of Rock (Reference ML102.P66 E55 1977)

Rock Who's Who (Reference ML102.R6 H5 1996)

Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll (Reference ML3534 .R64 1992)

Popular Music - Social Aspects

African American Almanac - 9th ed.

• Historical and current information on African American history, society, and culture.
• Includes a chronology, a chapter of important primary documents, a bibliography of recently-published works, hundreds of brief biographies, and more than 650 photographs

African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience

• Includes overview essays, sidebars, and primary sources, and over 200 images that chronicle the story of African Americans

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History

• Aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day

Encyclopedia of the Great Depression

Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources

• Focuses on some of the leading social issues of immigration and multiculturalism
• Contains speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art

Encyclopedia of American Immigration, 4 vols. (Reference JV6465 .E53 2001)

• Provides in-depth articles on all aspects of immigration including impact on culture and society

Popular Music - Political Aspects

1960s: An Annotated Bibliography of Social and Political Movements in the United States (Reference HN59 .J28 1992)

ABC-Clio Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America (Reference E169.02 .H3515 1997)

Americans at War

• Explains how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life
• Covers the Colonial Wars through the War on Terrorism

Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, 4 vols. (Reference HN57 .E594 2004)

• Articles are arranged by social issues. See the index under "Music."

From Radical Left to Extreme Right: a Bibliography of Current Periodicals of Protest, Controversy, Advocacy, or Dissent, 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions, 1967-1987 (Reference JK1 .S55)

Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History, 3 vols (Reference DS557.7 .E53 1998)

Sixties in America, 3 vols. (Reference E841 .S55 1999)

Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs and Films (Reference DS557.73 .H55 1998)

• Provides information on the historical background and creation of the work and includes a bibliography.

Using IUCAT catalog, you can locate more books in Helmke Library in either print or electronic format as well as sound recordings. Search by musician or musical genre. If the result list is too large, add an additional keyword such as a musician or a time period.

Example:
keywords anywhere: jazz and Coltrane

Academic Search Premier

• Millions of articles in more than 8,000 journals, with nearly 4,000 titles available full text
• Excellent for finding current articles in journals and magazines

America: History and Life

• Provides citations and abstracts from over 1,800 journals covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present
• Includes indexing of books, book reviews, and dissertations
• Covers 1954 to present

International Index to Musical Periodicals

• Abstracts of journal and magazine articles from1874 to the present
• Locate primary sources such as reviews, musical scores and interviews

Periodicals Archive Online

• Full text of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences
• Includes many popular magazines and music journals
• Covers 1665 to 2000

Possible primary sources for your research paper include music reviews, album liner notes, song lyrics and eyewitness accounts and interviews.

Contemporaneous News Accounts

Historical New York Times

• Cover-to-cover content includes news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, supplements, and advertisements
• Covers 1857 to two years ago

American Periodical Series Online, 1740-1900

• Includes general interest magazines, children's publications, and more than 20 journals for women
• Covers 1740 to 1900

Diaries, Letters, Memoirs, Papers, and Music Scores

In the First Person

• English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories
• Includes the collection Black Thought and Culture

Government, Politics, and Protest: Essential Primary Sources

• Contains approximately 175 full and excerpted documents
• Speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, songs, and works of art

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000

Historical Music Score Collection (ACPL)

• Collection of about 8,000 scores published between 1890 and 1930
• Located on the third floor of Helmke Library

General

Allmusic.com

• Introductory articles to musical genres and musicians
• Short biographies and discographies available

LyricsFind.com

• Provides a database of lyrics searchable by title

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library American Memory

• Consists of collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history.

American Folklife Center Online Collections and Presentations Online

• Content may include audio samples of music and stories, digital images of rare letters and photographs, and video clips.

Specific

American Popular Music, 1900 to 1950 (Kingwood college Library)

• Arranged chronologically, is intended as an overview of American history through its music.

American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

• This collection illustrates forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920.
• Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language playscripts, 146 theater playbills and programs, 61 motion pictures, 10 sound recordings and 143 photographs

California Gold Northern California Folk Music From the 1930s

• Includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern California.
• 35 hours of folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic groups and 185 musicians
• This elaborate New Deal project was organized and directed by folk music collector Sidney Robertson Cowell for the Northern California Work Projects Administration

Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement: An Online Archival Collection (Duke University)

• Focuses specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s
• Items range from radical theoretical writings to humorous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.

Harlem History

• Created by Columbia University, includes information on "Arts and Culture," "The Neighborhood," and "Politics"

Now What A time Blues Gospel and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

• Approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival
• Included are recordings made in Tennessee and Alabama (including six Sacred Harp songs) by John Work between September 1938 and 1941

Historic American sheet music, 1850-1920: selected from the collections of Duke University

• 3,042 pieces of sheet music drawn from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University,
• Variety of music types including bel canto, minstrel songs, protest songs, sentimental songs, patriotic and political songs, plantation songs, spirituals, dance music, songs from vaudeville and musicals, "Tin pan alley" songs, and songs from World War I
• Particularly strong in antebellum Southern music, Confederate imprints, and Civil War songs and music
• Cover illustrations represent an important, and in some cases almost unique, source of information for popular contemporary ideas on politics, patriotism, race, religion, love, and sentiment.

The Roaring 1920s Concert Extravaganza

• Provides access to real audio recordings of songs from the 1920s.

Voice from the Dust Bowl

• Multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.
• Consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera
• Documents dance tunes, cowboy songs, traditional ballads, square dance and play party calls, camp council meetings, camp court proceedings, conversations, storytelling sessions, and personal experience narratives of the Dust Bowl refugees who inhabited the camps.