Wired Jazz Page

This page is intended to help you use various types of electronic resources for jazz research. 

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 major way to find articles is to search electronic abstracting and indexing databases. WARNING: these 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 ca. 775 music periodicals from various countries; coverage: 1976-present, with frequent updates; links to full text of journals provided by JStor

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 via FirstSearch   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

RIPM via FirstSearch    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

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. 

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

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 Premier
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

Humanities Abstracts   
Cites articles from more then 350 English-language periodicals in the field of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology

Digital Dissertations (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

USING THE INTERNET FOR SERIOUS MUSIC RESEARCH:

There are many ways to find good sites on the Internet.  One is to use human-selected collections of links.  The best ones are expertly prepared and will efficiently take users to pertinent sites with high-quality content, possibly saving them hours of surfer frustration.  Here are some well-known academic sites covering a wide variety of topics in music:

Worldwide Internet Music Resources from Indiana University Music Library
A vast, selective list of links organized into 9 broad categories, each with many subdivisions.

Music Resources from Sibelius Academy, "the only music university in Finland"
A vast, selective list of links organized into 18 useful categories; keyword-searchable

DW3 Classical Music Resources
A large, searchable meta-list created by Yale Fineman of Duke University Music Library

Music at UCC [National University of Ireland]: Web Resources for Study & Research in Music
A list with a wide variety of links, from University College, Cork; includes jazz

An interesting 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