RESEARCH RESOURCES for articles, chapters, and books (restricted to Wesleyan access)
- Olin home page Library OneSearch window
- Listing of all of the Indexes and Databases in Olin Library
- Books, articles, dissertations, recordings:
- WorldCat (books and sound and video recordings contained in all US university libraries)
- JSTOR (articles in scholarly journals, not including the past 3-5 years)
- Project Muse (articles in scholarly journals, up to the present)
- Dissertations and Theses (pdfs that can be downloaded)
- Music Index [search Music Index on the M page] (1976 to the present; data from 775 international music periodicals)
- RILM [search RILM on the R page] (music literature, music theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and musicology–journal articles, books, dissertations)
- RIPM Jazz Periodicals [search RIPM Jazz Publications on the R page] (fully indexed and searchable jazz periodicals)
- Books, articles, dissertations, recordings:
- Newspapers (all databases)
- National current: Christian Science Monitor (1988-), Hartford Courant (1992-), Los Angeles Times (1985-), New York Times (1980-),Wall Street Journal (WSJ)(1984-) and Washington Post (1987-)
- New York Times (1851-current)
- New York Herald Tribune (1926-1962)
- Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988); Boston Globe (1872-1982); Chicago Defender (1910-1975); Chicago Tribune (1849-1987); Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991); Hartford Courant (1764-1988); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005); Los Angeles Times (1881-1987); New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993); New York Times (1851-2006); Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003); Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002), Wall Street Journal (1889-1992), Washington Post (1877-1993).
- Music Sources
- Grove Music Online [search Grove Music on the G page] (massive encyclopedia)
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
- rocksbackpages.com (extensive archive of magazine articles on rock)
- Music research links from Olin Library
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
- 50 publications: Billboard, Broadside, Creem, Jazz & Pop, Spin, Variety
- Billboard
- 1894-1960 (The Billboard)
- 1961-62 (Billboard Music Week)
- 1963-2000 (Billboard)
- 1988-current (Billboard)
- Rolling Stone (1990-)
- Variety (1905-2000)
- Jazz
- Everynoiseatonce.com
Open Access
- allmusic.com (comprehensive database of LP/CD albums, with biographies, chart positions, Grammy awards)
- discogs.com (comprehensive listing of vinyl albums and photos of the covers)
- Jazz Discography Project
- ASCAP and BMI (for searching composer copyright registrations)
Magazines
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- List of Magazines available on Google
- Billboard
- Life
- Library of Congress archives
- Newspapers
- Google Advanced News Archive Search (put “name of newspaper” as an exact phrase and limit to newspapers)
- Village Voice
- Historical newspapers online (U Penn site)
- Library of Congress, search America’s newspapers (1836-1922)
- Dissertations
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM) (abstracts only)
- DART-Europe E-theses Portal (European dissertations, some full text)
- Library and Archives Canada (full text dissertations, etc.)
- China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database (articles, dissertations)
- Digital Resources for Musicology
ACADEMIC WRITING
- Chicago Manual of Style Online (2017)–Wesleyan access only
- GLAAD Media Reference Guide (11th ed.): Transgender people; Glossary of terms: Transgender
- “Racial Transitions and Controversial Positions” (Rebecca Tuvel, Philosophy Today, 2018)
- To Do
- Becoming a Stylish Writer (Rachel Toor, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/2/2012) (Wesleyan access only)
- “Ten Rules of Writing” (Amitava Kumar)
- “Structure” (John McPhee, New Yorker, 2014)
- Critiques
- “The Professor of Parody: The Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler,” (Martha Nussbaum, New Republic, 1999)
- Reprint, including letters to the editor and reply by Nussbaum (Nussbaum, Philosophical Interventions, Reviews 1986-2011) (Wesleyan access only); (Open access)
- “International Art English” (Andy Beckett, theguardian.com, 1/27/2013)
- “Why Academics Stink at Writing” (Steven Pinker, Chronicle of Higher Education, 9/26/2014); Open access
- “Why Most Academics Will Always Be Bad Writers” (Noah Berlatsky, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7/11/2016) (Wesleyan access only); (Open access)
- “What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia” (Yascha Mounk, Atlantic, 2018)
- “The Professor of Parody: The Hip Defeatism of Judith Butler,” (Martha Nussbaum, New Republic, 1999)
- Jargon
- Learn to Write Badly, chap. 4, ”Jargon, Nouns, Acronyms,” especially pp. 77-79, Michael Billig (Wesleyan access only)
- “Zombie Nouns” (Helen Sword, NYT, 7/23/2012)
- Plagiarism
- Fareed Zakaria in Time magazine (2012), and more fallout
- Wired Editor Steals Content for Book About How Content Should be Free (gawker.com, 6/23/2009)
- Powerpoint: pro; con
CITATION STYLES
ETHICS
- 2017-2018
- “Bittersweet Rock and Roller” (3/21/2017, Ann Powers, NPR)
- “Bad Behavior, Great Art,” Letters to the Editor (NY Times, 10/28/2017)
- “How the Myth of Artistic Genius Excuses the Abuse of Women,” (Amanda Hess, NY Times, 11/10/2017)
- “What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men” (Claire Dederer, Paris Review, 11/20/2017)
- “The Artist Had Been Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With His Art” (Sarah Lyall, Dave Itzkoff, NYT, 11/24/2017)
- “Publicly We Say #MeToo. Privately, We Have Misgivings” (Daphne Merkin, 1/5/2018, NYT)
- “Am I a Bad Feminist“? (Margaret Atwood, The Globe and Mail, 1/13/2018)
- “What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist is Accused?” (8/15/2018, NYT)
- “An N.Y.U. Sexual-Harassment Case Has Spurred a Necessary Conversation about #MeToo” (8/25/2018, New Yorker)
- Kool A.D., Formerly of Das Racist, Accused of Sexual Assault by Four Women (12/17/2018, Pitchfork)
******
- Problematic
- “The Problem with ‘Problematic‘” (NY Review of Books, 2017)
- “Why the Weasel Word ‘Problematic’ Should be Banned” (LA Times, 2016)
- “The Banality of Empathy,” (Namwali Serpell, NY Review of Books, 3/2/2019)