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Popular Music Research Tools

Encyclopedias and Biographical Dictionaries

Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world

V. 1. Media, industry and society -- v. 2. Performance and production -- v. 3. Caribbean and Latin America -- v. 4. North America -- v. 5. Asia and Oceania -- v. 6. Africa and the Middle East -- v. 7. Europe -- v. 8. North America -- v. 9. Caribbean and Latin America -- v. 10. Middle East and North Africa -- Includes bibliographical references, discographies, and indexes.

Rita Benton Music Library Reference (ML102.P66 C66 2003)

The encyclopedia of popular music

Colin Larkin provides information on a range of popular music genre from 1900s onwards; including rock, pop, jazz, folk blues, heavy metal, techno, R&B, reggae, and hip-hop. This biographical encyclopedia contains a name index, an index of song titles, and bibliographies by artist and subject.

Rita Benton Music Library Reference (ML102.P66 G84 1998)

Encyclopedia of world pop music, 1980-2001.

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003

Rita Benton Music Library Reference (ML102.P66 J44 2003)

The Virgin encyclopedias of popular music

Separate volumes for the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Also an overall "Popular Music" volume.

Rita Benton Music Library Reference (ML102.P66 V568-57)

Popular music : the key concepts


Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge 2017

Rita Benton Music Library Stacks (ML102.P66 S58 2017)