Popular Music - Music - West - Research Guides at Pima Community College

Selected Online Journals

The online journals listed below live in the library's databases. Click on the links for shortcuts that go directly to that journal without having to locate them through a database.

Billboard
The international newsweekly of music, video and home entertainment; profiles, commentary, album ratings, feature articles, marketing and reviews.
Rolling Stone
NME (New Musical Express)
Popular Music
Popular Music and Society
Research articles and reviews for a general readership about popular music, culture, and sociology.
Popular Music History
Scholarly articles on the history of popular music
General Music Today
Contains articles on emerging trends, effective teaching ideas, & new material for teaching general music at all levels.
The Journal of Hip Hop Studies
Music Theory Online
Features articles, reviews, commentaries, and analytical essays related to the field of professional music theory.
Computer Music Journal
Concentrates on skills, technologies, and promises of digital sound and musical applications of computers.

E-Books

Pop Culture Universe
American history and popular culture, including fads and entertainment.
ABC-CLIO
E-books related to cultural studies, pop culture, and American history. Search for titles using Library catalog or browse all titles using ABC-Clio interface.
Ebooks on EBSCO
Ebooks on EBSCO.

Cool Town: how Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by Grace Elizabeth Hale
Publication Date: 2020-03-23
The Transformation of Black Music by Samuel A. Floyd; Melanie Zeck; Guthrie P. Ramsey
Publication Date: 2017
The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music by Andy Bennett (Editor); Steve Waksman (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
Icons of Rock by Scott Schinder; Andy Schwartz
Publication Date: 2007
From Tejano to Tango: Latin Popular Music by Walter Aaron Clark (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Jazz Notes: Interviews Across Generations by Sanford Josephson
Publication Date: 2009
The Original Guitar Hero and the Power of Music: the Legendary Lonnie Johnson by Dean Alger
Publication Date: 2014
Music of the Postwar Era by Don Tyler
Publication Date: 2007
Icons of R&B and Soul by Bob Gulla (Editor)
Call Number: https://library2.pima.edu/record=b1851369

Publication Date: 2007
Mods, Rockers, and the Music of the British Invasion by James E. Perone
Publication Date: 2008
Discovering Country Music by Don Cusic
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music by William Phillips; Brian Cogan
Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture by Brian Cogan
Publication Date: 2006
Ethnic and Border Music: A Regional Exploration by Norm Cohen
Publication Date: 2007
Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest by John Donald Robb; Jack Loeffler; Enrique R. Lamadrid
Publication Date: 2014

Library Databases & More

Pop Culture Universe
Good for artist biographies, concepts relating to the music, overviews of American decades
Gale Virtual Reference Library (formerly Gale ebooks)
Good for more substantial coverage of topics, including biographies.
ProQuest Research Library
A large database! Includes Rolling Stone and Billboard back issues.
MegaSearch

Other Resources to try:

Arizona Daily Star - Archive
Tucson news, back to 2005.
Encyclopedia of Great Popular Songs
Listing and descriptions of popular songs by era.
The History of Alternative Rock

JSTOR
Academic articles.

Try these for researching Jazz

JSTOR
JSTOR offers access to thousands of academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It also includes Artstor’s collection of high-quality images from leading museums, archives, and artists around the world.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (formerly Gale ebooks)

Gale Onefile: Fine Arts

ProQuest Research Library
Research Library is a truly multidisciplinary resource featuring a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and other timely sources across the top 150 subject area
Pop Culture Universe
American history and popular culture, including fads and entertainment.