Black Music: Jazz
Recommended search terms for finding books and other resources in InfoHawk+
Jazz -- Analysis, Appreciation ; Jazz -- History and Criticism ; Jazz musicians; Jazz singers ; Big bands; Free jazz ; Bop (music) ; Jazz -- Instruction and Study; Jazz -- 1921-1930 (can substitute any decade, will result in sound recordings from that decade)
Databases
- Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowIndexing and abstracts for more than 420 international music periodicals, plus full text for 83 journals.
- Music Index This link opens in a new window
This database covers 775 periodicals from 1975 to the present. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. It covers nearly one and a half million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music and related subjects. Coverage begins in the early 19th century and extends to the present. Includes the contents of the former RILM Retrospective Abstracts of Music Literature,
- Black Thought and Culture: African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present This link opens in a new windowBlack Thought and Culture is a single source for the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. The collection is intended for research in black studies, political science, American history, music, literature, and art.
- Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new windowSeveral films of note, including A Billy Taylor Musical Salute, A Tribute to Eubie Blake, Lionel Hampton - Living History, and more.
- Black Studies Center This link opens in a new windowBlack Studies Center combines three invaluable resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. This fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, and historical newspaper articles.
Audio
- Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new windowThe recordings in Naxos Music Library Jazz come from over 520 labels, and include the catalogues of Warner Jazz, Fantasy and many others.
- Music Online This link opens in a new windowMusic Online's Jazz Music Library contains thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. The collection includes more than 10,000 albums and more than 130,000 tracks licensed from legendary record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige.
