Encyclopedias
- Oxford Music Online(Contains Grove Music Online and Grove Jazz)
Great for: authoritative entries across a wide spectrum of genres, musical topics, and people; works lists; bibliographies
Format: online with new articles added regularly - Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed.)Great for: encyclopedia articles on American art music and composers, musical genres, and cultural groups; works lists; bibliographies
Format: print (Loeb Music Aldrich Room ML101.U6 N48 2013) - Encyclopedia of the BluesGreat for: articles on blues musicians, genres, and record labels
Format: online and print (Loeb Music Library Aldrich Room ML 102.B6 E53 2006) - Bloomsbury Popular MusicGreat for: ebooks about specific albums. The complete 33 1/3 series of short books about individual albums, plus the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World and selected titles from Bloomsbury's Popular Music Studies series.
Format: online - The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2009)Great for: brief articles on popular music from 1900 to the late 2000s
Format: online - RILM Music EncyclopediasGreat for: current and historical encyclopedias from a range of subject areas in historical musicology and ethnomusicology
Format: online, full-text articles; multilingual
