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Jazz Research Guide
from Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies. Includes a great set of links to jazz photography.
PBS Jazz
Created to support the release of Ken Burn's documentary. Includes historical information with maps, biographies, images, and audio examples.
All about Jazz
Web companion to a popular print magazine featuring reviews of recent jazz albums and concerts. The introductory area includes a good timeline.
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries:
The New Grove dictionary of jazz
Publisher: London : Macmillan ; c1988.
Available through Grove Music Online.
Bibliographies:
Jazz Theory Bibliography
From the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, this database was created by merging bibliographies compiled by Henry Martin and J. Kent Williams.
Videos:
Jazz
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; c2004.
Production: Cinematography, Buddy Squires, Ken Burns.
Format: DVD.
A 10 DVD video set from documenarian Ken Burns on the history of jazz from its roots in the African-American community of New Orleans to its heights and continuing presence.
Jazz Videos in the Tri-College Libraries
a customized Tripod search
Sound Recordings:
Naxos music library jazz
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers close to 22,600* tracks of jazz from over 2,300* albums. Over 500* jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. (*As of August 2007)
Jazz CDs in the Tri-College Libraries
a customized Tripod search
Fakebooks & Transcriptions:
Fake Books in the Tri-College Libraries
a customized Tripod search
Transcriptions of Solos in the Tri-College Libraries
a customized Tripod search
Books:
Tripod (Tri-College Library Catalog)
Use Tripod to find books and essays on your topic. Here are some searching hints:
- Keyword Searches: Start with words used to describe your topic. Try a variety of words and include the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT to explore many possibilities, e.g. coltrane AND poetry.
- Subject Headings Searches: Tripod uses Library of Congress subject headings. They are not always intuitive. Instead of starting with a subject heading search you may want to start with a keyword search. Browse through the list of results until you find something that looks relevant to your research. Click on the link and look through the description of the item to find "official" library terminology for the topic. You can then click on the links in Tripod labeled, "Subject".
- Limiting Searches: Also, after getting search results you can click on the "limit/sort search" button or the "modify search" button to refine your results.
Journal Articles:
RILM abstracts of music literature
Provider: CSA
This premier resource for music research indexes and summarizes journal articles, essays, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, videos, concert reviews, and recording notes. Indexes from 1967-present.
International index to music periodicals
Provider: Chadwyck
Covers more popular journals than the RILM Abtracts such as Downbeat, Village Voice, and Billboard. Includes some articles in full-text.
The Music index.
Publisher: Detroit, Information Service.
Use this index for citations to journal articles from the mid-20th century not covered by RILM and IIMP.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Indexes from 1971-present.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: ISI
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Indexes 1975- present.
Evaluating Sources:
Scholarly Journals vs. Popular Magazine Articles (USTA Library)
This page compares the two types of publications on several levels, including language, structure of articles, editorial procedures, and credits.
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins University Library)
Discusses the criteria by which scholars in most fields evaluate print information, and shows how the same criteria can be used to assess information found on the Internet.
Interlibrary Loan:
If something you need is not available on Swarthmore’s campus then it can be requested through our Tri-College Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan services.
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
This is a gigantic catalog of materials owned by libraries all over the world listing books, scores, sound recordings, videos, websites, and manuscript collections. If you find something in WorldCat not owned by the Tri-Colleges we can probably get it for you.