Music

Includes essays, biographies, chronologies, images, sheet music, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies to chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Musical genres represented are blues, civil rights songs, gospel, jazz, minstrelsy, rhythm & blues, slave songs, spirituals, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Offers in-depth information on musicians, albums, and songs with news, reviews, ratings, discographies, music samples, and links to streaming audio.

Provides reference materials spanning the history of Western classical music. Includes Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (also available in print in Burling Reference), and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, providing coverage of all classical genres from Medieval times to the present. Definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists is also provided.

Comprehensive online resource devoted to research on world music. Features overviews of various regions with a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Images and audio files are included. A print version with CDs is available at Burling reference.

Cross-searchable platform for music databases that includes the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, African American Music Reference, Classical Music Reference, Classical Scores Library, and more. Contains thousands of books, scores, and audio and video recordings.

Gateway to music research and access point for full-text Oxford music reference publications, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.

Fully integrated and cross-searchable collection of over 135 academic dictionaries providing short-entry content, as well as many of Oxford's encyclopedias and companions and other scholarly works.

A resource that offers searchable access to recorded track information for over 2,300 Negro Spiritual settings performed by solo classical vocalists. The growing database is a selection from more than 90 years of historic and contemporary recordings produced on compact discs, long-playing (33 1/3 rpm) albums, 78 rpm records, 45 rpm discs and audio cassettes.

Includes over 3,000 essays written by subject experts and assembled into a consistent, readable, and straightforward alphabetical reference work. Entries cover the major areas of popular culture: art, dance, film, music, print culture, social life, sports, television and radio, theater, and more. Part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library.