Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Reference Books

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

• Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music:
  Music Ref ML102.P66 G84 1995
• Oxford Companion to Popular Music: brief articles on musicians and musical styles.
  Music Ref ML102.P66 G35 1991
• Gale Virtual Reference Library:  An online collection of reference books.  You can search a single eBook, or across an eBook collection.
• Oxford Reference Online:  Another online collection of reference books covering a wide variety of subjects.

Books

In PacifiCat, search under keywords such as “beat poets”, “beat generation”, “west coast jazz”, “San Francisco” and “music”. For example, look at:

• American Youth Cultures / edited by Neil Campbell.    HQ799.7.A54 2004b
• Punk Rock, So What? : the Cultural Legacy of Punk / edited by Roger Sabin.  [eBook - click title to view]

Articles

In addition to Academic Search Complete, try the following:

• IIMP:  Jazz and popular music
• Communication and Mass Media: role of media and advertising
• JSTOR: full-text of the backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals, including literature, music, history
• MLA International Bibliography:  poetry, language, literature
• Project Muse: Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, to offer full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the world wide web.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

• All About Jazz:
  Includes album reviews, articles, artist interviews, profiles of jazz labels, and more.
• The Beat Generation and the Sixties:  a guide to web resources:
  Links to sources on beat literature, poetry, television, music and film.