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[FAS] Music: California in the 60s: Library Guide

Resources in the Harvard Library to help you research California in the 60s

Encyclopedias

Oxford Music Online
Our 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).
Allmusic Guide
Non-scholarly but slick, beautiful, and useful for background information, images of album covers, discographies, reviews, and biographies.
Bloomsbury Popular Music
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.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Short articles about people, genres, and topics in popular music, including discographies with record labels and release dates.

Featured Titles from the Catalog

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World by John Shepherd (Editor); Peter Wicke; Paul Wicke (Editor); David Horn; Dave Laing; Paul Oliver
Call Number: Loeb Music Aldrich Room ML102.P66 C66 2003 (Library use only)

Publication Date: 2003

Also 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 Lisa Scrivani-Tidd; Richard Skanse; Chris R. Smith; John Borgmeyer; Bob Gulla; MaryAnn Janosik; Rhonda Markowitz; Rob Patterson
Call Number: Loeb Music ML3534 .G754 2005

Publication Date: 2005

See especially volumes 2 and 3.
Fuzz, acid and flowers : a comprehensive guide to American garage, psychedelic and hippie rock (1964-1975) by written and compiled by Vernon Joynson
Call Number: Loeb Music Aldrich Room ML156.4.R6 J69 2004

Publication Date: 2004 (revisited)

Includes a rarity/sought-after scale and compilation listings.

Song Indexes

Rock Song Index: the 7500 most important songs of the Rock and Roll era, 1944-2000 by Bruce Pollock
Call Number: Loeb Music Aldrich Room ML128.R6 P65 2005

ISBN: 0415970733

Publication Date: 2005-08-26
Find That Tune: An Index to Rock, Folk-rock, Disco & Soul in collections by William Gargan (Editor); Sue Sharma (Editor)
Call Number: Loeb Music Aldrich Room ML128.R6 F56 1984

ISBN: 0918212707

Publication Date: 1984-02-01

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