Music: By Subject Subject Guide

Pop/Rock/Rap/Folk

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Books about Popular, Rock, and Folk Music

Rock, ML 3532; Rap, ML 3531; Soul, ML 3537; Reggae, ML 3532; Country, ML 3524; New Age, ML 3529; Folk music, ML 3550-3780 (all in General Stacks)
Dictionaries & encyclopedias: Popular music, Ref ML 102 .P66; Rock music, Ref ML 102 .R6 (Reference)

Billboard Charts

Current top albums, singles, videos, etc. Membership required to access archives.

Billboard Top 10 Charts, 1958-1997

Ref ML 156.4 .P6 W444 1998
There are many similar sources shelved near this one, including Billboard's Hottest 100 Hits and charts from Cash Box.

Blues, Funk, R&B, Soul, Hip Hop, and Rap: A Research and Information Guide

Ref ML 128 .P63 M43 2010
Lists books, theses and dissertations, and articles published in North America from the 1920s to 2008.

Contemporary Musicians: Profiles of the People in Music

Ref ML 385 .C615
Each volume profiles a number of musicians-classical, jazz, rock, country, religious, etc.-and has a cumulative index to the set.

Credo Reference 

Full text online from over 400 encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books. Search a topic, build a concept map or browse information sources organized by subject. Find text, images, sound files, sortable data tables and more.

Literature of Rock

Ref ML 128 .R6 H6, etc
Lists periodical articles and other sources about rock music.

RoJaRo Index (Rock-Jazz-Roots)

From Norway, an index to articles, discographies, and reviews in hundreds of music publications worldwide on rock, jazz, blues, country, soul, rap, metal, reggae, punk, world music, progressive, folk, etc.

Caribbean Popular Music: an encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall

Ref ML 102 .P66 M67 2005
Includes artists and other personalities as well as some terms.

Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture

Ref ML 102 .R27 B96 2006
Definitions of terms and short articles on artists and other people in rap and hip hop.

hiphopbibweb (Hip Hop Webliography)

Links to many hip hop sites, including directories, conferences, ezines, etc.

Rap and Hip Hop Resources

Bibliography of all kinds of information sources for research in hip hop and rap.

Folk Song Index

An index to folk and traditional songs from around the world with an emphasis on English-language songs. Contains more than 42,000 entries from more than 2,200 anthologies.

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