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Reference Works | Books, Recordings, Videos| Articles | Websites
Getting started on a Topic :
Use the following reference works (encyclopedias) for:
- overview on a topic, era, or style
- summary of a person's life and works
- leads for other books/articles/resources as you narrow your topic
Music Reference Works
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. MUSIC REF ML102.J3 N48 2002
Also available Online: Grove Music Online
- Good starting place , this is the most comprehensive encyclopedia for music.
Who's Who Of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street. MUS REF ML 106 .U3 C5 1978
- Biographical entries for American musicians born before 1920. Includes many musicians not found in Grove Music or Feather.
Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties / Feather, Leonard G., and Ira Gitler. MUS REF ML105 .F35
Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies / Feather, Leonard G., and Ira Gitler. MUS REF ML105 .F36
Jazz Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Biographical Materials. MUS REF ML 128 .B3 C37 1990
- Bibliography of books, dissertations, and journal articles. No articles from popular press.
Encyclopedia of popular music, 4th ed. MUS REF ML102.P66 G84 2006
Books , Recordings, Videos
Use the TCNJ Catalog to locate books, sound recordings, and videos owned by TCNJ. Recordings may contain lyrics and liner notes that you can use in your research.
- To find individual songs, type the title of the song in quotes i.e. "night in tunisia"
- Use Limits to search by format (sound recording, video
Listen to recordings (streaming) online via Smithsonian Global Sound
Finding Articles
International Index to Music Periodicals
Music Index ML118 .M84, Music Reference Collection (in print, organized by year)
EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
Databases for newspapers and the popular press
Historical New York Times (1851-2003)
Access World News (depending on newspaper, 1980s - current)
Reader's guide retro (1890-1982)
Reader's guide abstracts (1982 - current)
Recommended Websites
Websites for Primary Materials on Jazz:
U. Michigan: Standifer Video Archive: Black American Musicians (online transcripts of interviews)
Transcripts from interviews from Ken Burns' PBS Jazz series from pbs.org
Hamilton College Jazz Archive has DVDs of interviews, available through interlibrary loan
Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project (clips) - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
More Websites
All About Jazz (monthly webzine)
Red Hot Jazz Archives (pre-1930, mp3s)
Rutgers University : Institute of Jazz Studies, Guide to Jazz Musicians
Indiana University School of Music: Links to Jazz
Jazz Corner (includes jazz podcasts)
America’s Jazz Heritage: Smithsonian Institution
Ken Burns’ PBS Jazz Series : companion website
Online Jazz Slang Dictionary- Music & Media Librarian
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Last update: July 26, 2008
