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PATHFINDER: POPULAR
MUSIC
Scope| Subject
Headings|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals,
Journals & Trade Publications|Web
Sites
SCOPE: Popular music is a
term used to describe a collection of musical form and
types or styles which are followed by a mass audience of
buyers of music, which by present day standards,
includes downloaded music, CD’s and concerts. (Taylor,
Popular Music since 1955)
The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a
guideline for student research. It is not intended as a
comprehensive listing of all the materials available in
the library on this topic, but as a selective sampling
of the many types of resources available.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
Books dealing with popular music are listed in the
Baddour Library’s online catalog under the following
subject headings:
Popular music—United States—History and criticism
Music and youth
Popular music—Social aspects
There are sources located in the Reference Section of
the Baddour Library that give a general overview or
summary of the topic you are researching. The following
is a list of some of the sources available in the
library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF ML 100.N48 2001 The New Grove Dictionary of Music
and Musicians
REF ML102.P66 J44 2003 Encyclopedia of world pop music,
1980-2001
REF ML 105.H38 1996 The Harvard Biographical Dictionary
of Music
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Some representative books from the circulating
collection located upstairs in the library:
Bennett, Andy.
Cultures of Popular Music. Philadelphia: Open
University Press, 2001.
Hardy, Phil.
The Faber Companion to the 20th-Century Popular Music.
London: Faber, 2001.
Jackson, John A.
American bandstand: Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock
“n”
Roll Empire. New York: Oxford University Press,
1997.
Quinn, Eithne.
Nuthin; but a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of
Gangsta Rap. New York: Columbia University Press,
2005.
Ramsey, Guthrie P.
Race Music: Black Cultures from Behop to Hip-Hop.
Berkeley,
Calif: University of California Press, 2004.
Rubin, Rachel and Jeffrey Melnick.
American Popular Music: Approaches to the
Twentieth Century. Amherst: University of
Massachusetts Press, 2001.
Szwed, John F.
Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
For full text journal articles on this topic click on
the following link:
Music, Drama, Dance & Film
Ethnomusicology
Music History & Criticism, Instrumental
Music History & Criticism, Popular-Jazz, Rock, etc.
Music Literature
Music Instruction & Study
Music Philosophy
Open Access Journals in
Music
MEDIA
ML3551.A54 2001 (videorecording)
American Roots Music
WEB SITES
AMG all-music guide
http://www.allmusic.com
Biographies, reviews, and
essays on popular music. `
Center for the history of music theory and literature
http://www.music.indiana.edu/chmtl/
Electronic access to
several music databases.
Updated
08/23/2007
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