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Music 2501.1: Researching Hip-Hop (Spring 2009)  Tags: music research popular_culture history hip_hop  

A guide to research strategies, information resources, and library services for a Spring 2009 course on researching Cornell's Hip-Hop collection.
Last update: Apr 15th, 2009 URL: http://guides.library.cornell.edu/music2501  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Research Tips

See Search Tips: Articles for more information.

Look for Get it Cornell links to retrieve full text articles online.

All databases and journals can also be found in the Library Catalog.

 
 

Recommended general subject database to start your search for articles

 Research Library (ProQuest). Ann Arbor: Bell & Howell, 1986- .

 

ProQuest

 
Research Library indexes and abstracts an extensive number of general interest magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. Full text of many articles is provided.

Click on the Databases Selected link to select and search other ProQuest databases, including a selection of Historical Databases:

  • APS Online (American Periodicals Series) 1740-1900
  • ProQuest Historial Newspapers
    • New York Times 1851-2005
    • Wall Street Journal 1889-1991
    • Washington Post 1877-1992

 Also try the multidisciplinary Academic Source Premier database.

 

Articles and Databases

Browse or Search for articles, databases or images on your topic in Cornell University Library databases.

 

Database Search Options:

 

Article Search Options:

 

  • Use the Articles search from the Library Homepage to do simple searches from selected databases.
  • Use the Advanced search to find articles in one or more databases in a particular subject area.

 

 

Music Databases

Search for Hip-Hop articles in these music databases:

  • Music Index  
    Data from more than 640 international music periodicals. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Online)  
    Thousands of citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Includes all data from the RILM printed year 1967 to the present.
  • rock's backpages  
    Rock reviews, articles and interviews from the late 1950s to the present day.
 

Other "Hip-Hop" Databases

Think History, Sociology, Anthropology, Literature, and Film, as well as Music databases for Hip-Hop scholarship.  A selection of possibilities:

 

E-Journal Collections

e-Journal Collections

 JSTOR New York, NY: JSTOR, c1996-.

JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business and other fields.

Project Muse Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1995- .

Project Muse provides access to the full text of journals covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and others.

Search or browse the 26,000+ e-Journals licensed by the Cornell University Library.

 

 

Google Scholar - Get it Cornell

Look for Get it Cornell links in your Google Scholar search results. These links connect you to full text articles in the Cornell journal collections.


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