ENGLISH 593A - Representation and Popular Music

Music Resources
- infoLINK [Binghamton University Libraries online catalog] - to search for sound recordings, change the "Search in:" box from "Full BU Catalog" to "Sound Recordings
- metaLINK Databases - MUSIC
  - Grove Music Online- The premiere encyclopedia for music. Grove Music Online offers a dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
  - RILM Abstracts of Music Literature [Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale] Abstracs of Musical Literature - The main scholarly article database for musicology. Citations and abstracts only. Links to full-text availability.
  - Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online - Citations only. May be available through interlibrary loan.
Online Audio Resources
- NAXOS Music Library - Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. The database also contains music in contemporary jazz, world music (including a specific collection of Chinese music), folk music and a small collectioon of pop and rock. The database offers access to over 250,000 (and growing) tracks of music to the campus community. While listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. Tracks in NML are not downloadable to any device. Available 24/7 to the entire University community via the internet.
- American Memory Project - Primary source materials from The Library of Congress, including early audio files from various projects.
History Resources - metaLINK Databases - HISTORY

Historical Abstracts/America History & Life - The main scholarly article database for history. Coverage from mid-1950's to present. Can be searched separately or together. Citations and abstracts only. Links to full-text availability.
Readers Guide Retrospective - Comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, 1890-1982. Citations only. Links to full-text availability.
Periodicals Index Online - An electronic index to the table of contents in over 3935 periodicals English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Currently indexes around 13 million articles since the mid-seventeenth century through 1990 and every article in each journal is indexed. Only article titles are indexed ; no subject searching. Citations only. Links to full-text availability.

Primary Source Online Resources - metaLINK Databases
- New York Times Historical Backfile - Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue in 1851.
- Times (London) Digital Archive - A full-image online archive of every page published by The London Times from its first issue in 1785 to1985.
- American Periodical Series Online - Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900 (coverage extends to 1940), including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
- Making of America Project - A digital library of primary sources in 19th century American history. Includes books and journals published in the United States from the collections of Cornell University and the University of Michigan.