Library Research Guides: AMST 315: Beats, Rhymes, and Life: Find Articles

Key Journals & Magazines

Vibe
Vibe is the lifestyle guide to urban music and culture including celebrities, fashion, beauty, consumer electronics, automotive, personal care/grooming, and, always, music.
Billboard
Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Village Voice
Local New York news, events, music, movies, restaurants, and reviews.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone Magazine features music, album and artist news, movie reviews, political, economic and pop culture commentary, videos, photos, and more.
XXL
Hip-hop on a higher level with new music, rap videos, reviews, new artists, industry news and the rapper database.
The Source
The online version of the popular Hip-hop music magazine that provides news coverage of urban music, African American issues, youth culture and politics.

SuperSearch is a great place to start for journal articles, books and almost everything else the library has, in one easy to use interface.

For searching with more focus and precision, try one of the databases recommended on this guide.

These databases contain citations and full text from scholarly journals in disciplines that support American Studies.

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes international scholarly literature in sociology, 1952 to present.
Communication & Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Journal articles in the fields of communications, mass media, journalism, television, radio, newspaper publishing, speech, broadcasting, communication theory, and advertising, with full text for over 500 journals.

RoJaRo
Citations for articles on rock music, 1992 to date
A free music magazine index covering rock, jazz, roots music, blues, country, rap, soul, folk Latin, gospel, metal, psychedelic, reggae, punk, world music, salsa, afropop, pop, film music progressive, dance, techno, electronica, avant garde, ska, r&b, exotica, house, etc. Also includes music magazine, fanzine, and record label information.

Music Index This link opens in a new window
Article citations, 1973 to date
Differs from RILM in indexing periodical articles only, and in indexing general, non-scholarly, performance-oriented, and consumer music magazines. Can be searched simultaneously with Academic Search Complete and RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Citations and summaries, 1967 to date
Along with Grove Music Online, RILM is one of the most essential tools for music research. It cites and summarizes significant writings on music published from 1967 to date.

These databases contain citations & full text for scholarly articles in a variety of fields.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
The world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database. Dates of coverage vary by title and go back as far as 1887.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Collection of key scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences & natural sciences, starting from the first issue but typically not the most recent 3-5 years.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Academic journals and books in the humanities and social sciences.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Index to scholarly articles in the arts and humanities, 1975 to present. Search for articles that cite known journal articles or books