The Background: Finding Reference & Biographical Information

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music: Encyclopedia covering popular music from 1900 to the present. Articles on artists, groups, and record labels, with discographies (including release dates) and suggestions for further reading.

Grove Music Online: Premiere music reference source, the online, updated edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Grove includes articles on composers, performers, genres, music history, and music theory.  Selected major figures in rock and pop included.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Lengthy, comprehensive articles (organized by region of the world), with thorough bibliographies and discographies.

Allmusic Guide: Non-scholarly but useful for background information, discographies, reviews, and biographies.

Oxford Reference Online: Browse to Subject / Performing Arts: Concise biographical and reference articles about major figures in the arts.

For links to many other resources - biographical databases, online journals, websites of scholarly societies, museums and libraries, and more - check the Music Library's guide Online Resources for Music Scholars.

 

 

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