Mus 230 -- Social and Political Issues in American Music
See also:
Sociology Subject Guide
Music Subject Guide
Finding Books in the TCNJ Catalog
Use [More search options] from library homepage for a full search
Try boolean keyword searching using and to connect concepts:
music and protest
Click on the Library of Congress Subject Headings to lead you to more info on that subject.
Also try a Subject Heading Browse. Useful subject headings include:
Protest songs
Protest movements
Working class songs and music
Popular music
Music and race
Music and war
Rock music
Reggae music
You can also search peoples' names and groups as subject headings:
Dylan, Bob
Guthrie, Woody
Limit your search to Reference, Videos, Sound REcordings, General Collection Books etc.
Searching for Recordings:
Use the TCNJ Catalog to locate sound recordings. Recordings may contain lyrics and liner notes that you can use in your research.
Search for songs by title - use quotes to keep words together
"ballad for americans"
Use Limits to search for Sound Recordings only
Smithsonian Global Sound (TCNJ Users) Online collection of recorded sound, including folk, popular, and classical world music, speeches, and oral histories
Reference works for music
Baker's biographical dictionary of popular musicians since 1990
ML102.P66 B35 2004, Music Reference Collection
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
ML100 .G37, Music Reference Collection
The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music (1995)
ML102.P66 G84 1995, Music Reference Collection
The green book of songs by subject : the thematic guide to popular music
ML156.4.P6 G73 1995, Music Reference Collection
The New Grove dictionary of American music
ML101.U6 N48 1986, Music Reference Collection
Popular music; an annotated index of American popular songs
ML120.U5 S5, Music Reference Collection
A resource guide to themes in contemporary American song lyrics, 1950-1985
Call Number: ML156.4.P6 C66 1986, Music Reference Collection
Songs of protest, war & peace : a bibliography & discography
ML128.W2 D5 1973, Music Reference Collection
The Vietnam experience : a concise encyclopedia of American literature, songs, and films
Call no. DS557.73 .H55 1998, Reference Collection
Finding articles
Print indexes:
The Rolling stone index : twenty-five years of popular culture, 1967-1991
AP2 .R73 Index 1967-91 Location: Indexes
Online indexes and databases:
EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
International Index to Music Periodicals
Databases for newspapers:
Websites
Lift Every Voice: Music in American Life: Protest Songs (University of Virginia Special Collections)
African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collection at Brown University (Library of Congress, American Memory Project)
Sheet Music Consortium (UCLA, Indiana, Hopkins and Duke)
Southern Mosaic: John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip (Library of Congress American Memory Project)
Woody Guthrie Foundation Archives
Linda Dempf
Music & Media Librarian
July 26, 2008
