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Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Librarian: Rhonelle Runner, Music and Humanities Librarian

The Politics of Punk

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.

Books

In PacifiCat, search under keywords such as “punk rock”, “social protest”, “rock music history”, “avant garde”, “music and politics”. 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: Covers scholarly and popular publications for all types of music.
RILM: Covers many different aspects of music, including history, aesthetics, criticism, education and more.
JSTOR: full-text of the backfiles of hundreds of scholarly journals, including history, music, literature, and more.
MLA International Bibliography: poetry, language, literature
Project Muse: humanities, literature, culture.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

A History of Punkz: A webzine with articles on punk and related subjects, it includes a great reading list.