Encyclopedias
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Oxford Music OnlineOur top pick for an online encyclopedia: excellent articles on individual artists, bands, recordings, and genres, all paired with reliable suggestions for further reading (though not always up to date).
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Allmusic GuideNon-scholarly but slick, beautiful, and useful for background information, images of album covers, discographies, reviews, and biographies.
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Bloomsbury Popular MusicThe 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.
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Encyclopedia of Popular MusicShort articles about people, genres, and topics in popular music, including discographies with record labels and release dates.
Featured Titles from the Catalog
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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World by
Call Number: Loeb Music Aldrich Room ML102.P66 C66 2003 (Library use only)Publication Date: 2003Also available online (as the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World). See especially volumes 1 and 8 -
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History by
Call Number: Loeb Music ML3534 .G754 2005Publication Date: 2005See especially volumes 2 and 3. -
Fuzz, acid and flowers : a comprehensive guide to American garage, psychedelic and hippie rock (1964-1975) by
Call Number: Loeb Music Aldrich Room ML156.4.R6 J69 2004Publication Date: 2004 (revisited)Includes a rarity/sought-after scale and compilation listings.
Song Indexes
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Rock Song Index: the 7500 most important songs of the Rock and Roll era, 1944-2000 by
Call Number: Loeb Music Aldrich Room ML128.R6 P65 2005ISBN: 0415970733Publication Date: 2005-08-26 -
Find That Tune: An Index to Rock, Folk-rock, Disco & Soul in collections by
Call Number: Loeb Music Aldrich Room ML128.R6 F56 1984ISBN: 0918212707Publication Date: 1984-02-01