Music

In many fields, including jazz, research involves reading articles in scholarly journals. WARNING: You CANNOT search for articles in library online catalogs. You can use the online catalog to find out whether our library has a certain journal by doing a title search.

The best way to begin your search for articles is to search for ARTICLE CITATIONS in MUSIC-SPECIFIC electronic abstracting and indexing databases.  As far as we know, UNT subscribes to all that are currently available. GOOD NEWS: as of spring 2010, Music Index now links to many full-text resources through its new owner, EBSCOhost.  FURTHER GOOD NEWS: as of summer 2010, we are receiving RILM and RIPM from EBSCOhost. This means that they also link to many full-text resources. YOU CAN ALSO USE THE ONLINE CATALOG TO ACCESS MOST OF OUR FULL-TEXT RESOURCES VERY EFFICIENTLY.  IF YOU WANT THE BEST ARTICLES, NOT THE ONES THAT ARE EASIEST TO GET, YOU MAY HAVE TO COME TO THE LIBRARY TO LOOK AT PRINT JOURNALS.   

WARNING: the databases listed below are NOT web sites that are free for all on the Internet. They are PRODUCTS for which our university buys subscriptions.  You must access them through the special hotlinks provided in the library catalog and on the library web pages.  Authorized UNT users are allowed to access all of our subscription databases remotely by providing EUIDs and passwords.

Use these music-specific databases to identify articles pertinent to your research.  The following list is in order of importance for jazz research: 

Music Index
indexes hundreds of music periodicals from various countries; coverage: 1973-present, with frequent updates; links to full text of journals through EBSCOhost.

International Index to Music Periodicals
indexes and abstracts ca. 350 recent music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus music articles from the New York Times and Washington Post; also includes 130,000 retrospective citations back to 1874; coverage: 1874-present with quarterly updates

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature  an international, abstracted bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines from music periodicals and other sources, with over 200,000 entries; coverage: 1969-present, with monthly updates; links to full text of journals through EBSCOhost.

RIPM    Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800-1950. Published under the auspices of the International Musicological Society, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, UNESCO’s International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies; links to full text of journals through EBSCOhost.

SUBSCRIPTION STREAMING AUDIO SERVICES:

Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library allows UNT users to stream a wide variety of classical, jazz, new age, and world music. Please be sure to click on the red “Log Out” button on the upper right hand of the screen when you are finished using Naxos.

Naxos Music Library Jazz
The recordings in Naxos Music Library Jazz include famous Jazz Legends and Historicals, new selected titles of other leading independent labels are added every month. Contains more than 3000 CDs and new CDs are added every month.

Classical Music Library
As its title indicates, this service focuses mainly on classical music, but there are a few jazz offerings.

DRAM - Database of Recorded American Music
DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing educational communities with on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio (192kbps Mp4), complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. Continuing in the tradition of DRAM's sister company New World Records, one of DRAM's primary focuses is the preservation and dissemination of important recordings that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace, recordings that may otherwise become lost or forgotten. Currently DRAM's collection contains nearly 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 15 independent labels, and we are continually working to add more content. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records.

American Song
American Song will become the definitive source for American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music. Included are powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy The Chief Clearwater, Nanci Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis, Ma Rainey, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, William Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Blind Willie McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, Memphis Minnie, Arthur Big Boy Crudup, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red, Edith Wilson, Earl Hines, Eddie Johnson, Bobby Bradford, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and hundreds more.

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Smithsonian Global Sound for Librariesﾮ 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. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies. The collection is an outgrowth of the vision and work of Folkways Records founder Moses Asch, who created a veritable encyclopedia of the human experience of sound, releasing more than 2,000 albums between 1948 and 1986, including those by American folk icons such as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, and countless influential others.

GROVE:
Grove Music Online
The electronic version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, incorporating the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESOURCES POSSIBLY USEFUL FOR MUSIC RESEARCH:

VERY IMPORTANT:
WorldCat 
A super online catalog of more than 35 million entries describing items owned by libraries around the world, with information on which libraries own the items; includes musical scores and sound recordings; does not include articles; use this resource to initiate inter-library loan requests for books and scores.  (Most libraries do not let sound recordings go out on inter-library loan.)  

Academic Search Complete
Scholarly collection providing full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc. Full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications; abstracts and indexing for nearly 4,150 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1984. An EBSCOhost database coming to us via TexShare

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Dissertation Abstracts) 
bibliographic citations for doctoral dissertations and master's theses in all fields completed at over 1,000 accredited colleges and universities worldwide, with emphasis on U.S. schools; abstracts included from 1980 forward; for pre-1980 abstracts, see print version in General Reference

A blues site from PBS:
The Blues
The website promoting the 7-part PBS series; names many historically-significant blues artists and provides links to blues venues in north Texas

Discography:
Online 78rpm Discographical Project