Widely Accessed Non-Music Databases with Important Music Content— Overview and Searching Tips

1. Widely Accessed Non-Music Databases with Important Music Content—Overview and Searching Tips Presented by Darwin F. Scott Creative Arts Librarian, Brandeis University for the New England Music Library (NEMLA) Spring Meeting at NELINET (Southborough, MA) April 29, 2005

2. KEY NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENTFive Examples: • LexisNexis Academic • America: History and Life • Historical Abstracts • Sociological Abstracts • American National Biography

3. WHY? • Can be more current than music citation sources. • Journals not indexed in music citation sources. • Interdisciplinary. • Newspaper coverage. • Way to get around electronic music resources you don’t have.

4. LexisNexis Academic • Among its many features, offers full-text of 350+ newspapers and 300+ magazines and journals from the U.S. and around the world—many the same day of publication • Includes extensive archives—for example: • Boston Globe, 1994– • New York Times, 1980– • Washington Post, 1970– • Billboard, 1991– • Variety, 1993– • Extremely useful for: • locating performance reviews • information on contemporary composers • feature articles on performers • popular culture and music — popular music • world music

5. LexisNexis Academic: News — Homepage

6. LexisNexis Academic: News — “Formula” for Searching Concert Reviews, Music and Popular Culture, World Music, etc. • Tips on how to fill in the boxes: • Step One — News category: Arts & Sports News • Step Two — Select a news source:Entertainment newsor Book, movie, music, & play reviews • Step Three — Enter search terms:select Full Text (rather than Headline, Lead Paragraph, etc.) • Useandbetween search words, such asmusic and globalizationor klezmer and jazzor metropolitan and parsifal. • Put quotes around expressions, such as"popular music" or"united states"— combine as "popular music" and "united states". • Wild cards: * for each letter; ? for indeterminate number of letters. • Step Four — Select the appropriate date range(default Previous six months is usually too narrow) • Step Five (optional) — Limit the publication (New York Times, Boston Globe, etc.) — enter • automatically from Source List link next to Step Two box.

7. LexisNexis Academic: News — Search for Peru Negro Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 • Step One — News category: Arts & Sports News • Step Two — Select a news source:Entertainment newsor Book, move, music, & play reviews • Step Three — Enter search terms: “peru negro”— select Full Text • Step Four — Select the appropriate date range: Previous five years • Step Five (optional) — Limit the publication —left blank

8. LexisNexis Academic: News — Search on Peru Negro, Sorted by Date Listings interfile with more substantive articles and reviews.

9. LexisNexis Academic: News — Search on Peru Negro, Sorted by Relevance More substantive articles tend to fall at the top of the list.

10. LexisNexis Academic: News —Peru Negro Article in the Miami New Times E-mail option

11. America: History and Life • ABC-Clio product. • Provides bibliographic references with abstracts to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. • Articles date back to 1954. • Reasonably up to date; April 28 search showed 557 citations to 2005 publications. • Covers 2,000+ journals published worldwide. • In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. • Includes citations for dissertations and book and media reviews.

12. America: History and LifeA Few Searching Tips • Use quotation marks around phrases. • Boolean AND is default between search words. • Truncation: * = multiple letters; ? = single letter. (Exactly the opposite of LexisNexis! Lesson here: always check the truncation symbols for each product; there is little consistency across databases.)

13. America: History and Life — Homepage

14. America: History and Life — Mozart [and] Franklin Search s Brandeis SFX link Latest hit on Mozart and Franklin in RILM is 1996!

15. America: History and Life — Output Options

16. America: History and Life — Mozart [and] Franklin Search — Following the SFX Link Clicking leads to: s

17. America: History and Life — Mozart [and] Franklin Search — Full Text of Article via PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)

18. America: History and Life — Hip-Hop / Rap Music Search Keyword Search: (hip-hop or hiphop or “rap music”) and music Eliminated books from search.

19. America: History and Life — Hip-Hop / Rap Music Search Results — First 8 of 54, with Sample Subjects from Full Records Subject:Rap music.Popular Culture.Political Commentary.Music.Internationalism.Hip-hop. Subject:California (Los Angeles).Music.Ethnic identity.Akwid (musical group).Mexican Americans. Subject:Rap music.Music.Social networks. Subject:Psychoanalysis.Death and Dying.Music.Rap music.Real (term).Hip-hop.Shakur, Tupac. Subject:Religion.Rap music.Music.Blacks.Black Nationalism.

20. Historical Abstracts • ABC-Clio product. • The “rest of the world” equivalent of America: History and Life—covers 1450 to the present—but completeness of world coverage controlled by the journals indexed. • Published since 1954. • Covers 2,000+ key historical journals published worldwide as well as a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities that are of special interest to researchers and students of history • Also selected books and dissertations.

21. Historical Abstracts — Homepage

22. Historical Abstracts — User Options

23. Historical Abstracts — Search Limiters

24. Historical Abstracts — Search for Subject Jazz [and] France

25. Historical Abstracts — French Jazz Search Results Subject: Popular Culture.Jazz.France (Paris). Subject: National Self-image.Jazz.France (Paris).Debates. Subject: Jazz.Hot Club de France.France.Blacks.Americans.

26. Historical Abstracts — Early Music 2004–2005 Search

27. Historical Abstracts — Early Music 2004-2005 Search

28. Sociological Abstracts —Some Music / Interdisciplinary Topics • Popular culture • Popular music and society • Mass media • Ethnic issues • Women and music • Entertainment industry

29. Sociological Abstracts — Homepage Default is Relevance — you may want to change to Date (descending order)

30. Sociological Abstracts — Rap Music Search

31. Sociological Abstracts — Rap Music Search

32. Sociological Abstracts — Rap Music Search — Sample Record

33. American National Biography

34. American National Biography: Music — Occupations and Realms of Renown Comb Players                CornetistsFiddlersFlugelhorn PlayersFlutistsGuitaristsHarmonica PlayersHarpsichordistsHorn PlayersKeyboard PlayersOboistsOrganistsPercussionistsPianistsSaxophonistsSitar PlayersTrombonistsTrumpetersVibraharpistsViolinistsViolists             Types of Music and SingingBlues Musicians / SingersCantorsChantersConcert SingersCountry Musicians / SingersFolk Musicians / Singers                Gospel Musicians / Singers                Jazz Musicians                Jazz Singers                Opera Singers                Popular Singers                Ragtime Musicians                Reggae Musicians                Rhythm and Blues Musicians / Singers                Rock Musicians / Singers                Soul Musicians / Singers                Western Swing Musicians Performing Arts Radio and Television            Disc Jockeys            Radio / Television Engineers            Radio / Television Personalities            Radio / Television Producers / Directors            Radio / Television Writers            Religious Broadcasters         Theater and Live Entertainment            Acrobats            Burlesque Performers            Circus Performers            Clowns            Comedians            Costume Designers            Cowboys            Daredevils            Impersonators            Magicians            Midgets            Mimes            Minstrel Show Performers            Monologuists            Orators            Puppeteers            Rodeo Performers            Sharpshooters            Siamese Twins            Stage / Screen Actors            Theatrical Designers            Theatrical Producers / Directors            Toastmasters            Vaudeville Performers            Ventriloquists Composite of 3 screens (single columns)

35. American National Biography—Andrews Sisters

36. American National Biography—Andrews Sisters, continued

37. OTHER NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENTNote: I have tested all of these resources for music content; coverage varies, but if used with limited expectations, the results can often be surprising and retrieve materials not found in the standard music resources.List is based on what is available from Brandeis University. American Music (through 1876) • Early American Newspapers, 1690–1876 (Readex) Asian Music • Bibliography of Asian Studies Eastern European Music • American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies Greek and Roman Music • L’année philologique

38. OTHER NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT Jewish Music • Index to Jewish Periodicals Latin American Music • Handbook of Latin American Studies Online • Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) Music Aesthetics • Philosopher’s Index Music and Medecine • PubMed (Medline) Music and Society (Popular Culture) • Social Science Abstracts Music Cognition • CogNet (MIT Press)

39. OTHER NON-MUSIC ELECTRONIC RESOURCESWITH SIGNIFICANT MUSIC CONTENT Music Education • Education Index Psychology of Music • PsycINFO or PsycARTICLES Women and Music • Contemporary Women’s Issues • Women’s Studies International World Music / Ethnomusicology • Anthropology Plus (Eureka; combines Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature)