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.

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

Sociological Abstracts

Scholarly and peer reviewed articles in sociology.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
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
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
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

Full-text scholarly articles in all disciplines.
JSTOR

Scholarly journal articles and books in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Does not include the most recent 3-5 years of many journals.
Project MUSE

Journal articles in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Scholarly articles on topics in archaeology, art, architecture, Asian studies, classics, dance, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literary reviews, literature, music, philosophy, poetry, radio, television, & film, religion and theatre, published from 1975 to present.