Hon 370-02 - Gender, Sexuality, and Pop Music in the 1980s

 

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Fourth floor Music & Media Collections

 

LPs (vinyl!) -- CDs, videos -- Music Scores -- Music Reference Books --Music Books (circulating)

 

Getting Started

 

• Encyclopedia of Popular Music , 4th ed.,online through the library homepage (Oxford Music Suite)
  Also in print: ML102.P66 G84 2006 MUS REF Collection
  • Good place to start your research
  • Works Lists
  • Bibliographies lead you to more resources

 

• Encyclopedia of American cultural & intellectual history. (Print) E169.1 .E624 2001 REF Collection
• American decades primary sources, E169.1 .A471977 2004 REF Collection.
  • See also earlier edition: E169.12 .A419 1996+ REF Collection
• Encyclopedia of gender and society. HQ1115 .E54 2009 REF Collection
• Encyclopedia of sex and gender. HQ16 .E52 2007 REF Collection
• Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, available as electronic book or B831.2 .E63 2001 REF Collection

 

Books - recordings - videos

 

Search the TCNJ Library Catalog -- Search Tips:

• Use the full catalog search (click More Search Options from library homepage)
• When searching by keyword, use boolean operators and, or, not to combine search terms: 
  
  rock and gender
  
• When searching by keyword, use quotation marks to keep words together:
  
  “punk rock ”

 

• Limit to the format you want: “Sound Recording” or “Video/DVD” or "General collection" for books, etc.
  

• Important for music: To see a more detailed record, click on

Use Library of Congress Subject Headings to search by "Subject Heading Browse" in the TCNJ catalog, such as:

• Rock music
• Music and race
• Rock groups
• Women singers
• Punk rock music
• New wave music

 

To find books about musicians/groups, search names as subject headings:

• Anderson, Laurie
• Rolling Stones
• Springsteen Bruce
  

 

Finding journal Articles about music

 

The Rolling stone index : twenty-five years of popular culture, 1967-1991. In print, Library Lower Level Indexes: AP2 .R73 Index 1967-91

IIMP: International Index to Music Periodicals available online--go through the library homepage

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

 

Other databases for music / popular culture / gender

 

EBSCO Academic Search Premiere

Wilson Web
JSTOR
America History & Life

GenderWatch

 

Finding Newspaper Articles and Reviews

 

Historical New York Times (1851-2003)

Access World News (NewsBank)

 

Useful websites

 

Trouser Press (new wave, progressive, independant labels)
Rockwisdom.com - lyrics
Google Scholar
Internet Archive

 

Need more and can’t find it in the TCNJ Library?

• Search Worldcat to see what is in other libraries (books, scores, recordings, videos), then....

Find an article or book that TCNJ does not own or have access to?

• Submit an Interlibrary Loan Request
  

 

Questions?

 

email Linda Dempf
Music & Media Librarian

or call, IM, email : Ask a Librarian

October 1, 2009