Popular Music: Databases & Journal Articles

Also, current issues located in Bixler Library. Popular music trade magazine, covering top charts, music business, record reviews, and new media.

Also, current print issues in Bixler Library.

The journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, JPMS provides a multidisciplinary and global perspective.

Open website for the print magazine..great for covering the current music scene, reviews, video, audio, etc.

PM is a peer-reviewed journal, covering all aspects popular music, global music and identity. Substantial, authoritative articles are featured.

Peer-reviewed academic journal with articles on all aspects of popular music, here and globally.

Also, current print issues located in Miller Library

SPIN cover's current trends and the most significant artists in hip-hop, alternative, pop, and indie music, and often includes interviews with artists, and well as criticism. See the Spin website as well, for more info.

This is a peer reviewed journal, published three times a year, with articles on rock music and its numerous subgenres. International in scope, Rock Music Studies looks at rock's interaction with other styles, with a variety of disciplinary and theoretical approaches.

RECOMMENDED: Search general interest magazine for feature articles and reviews of performances by musicians

hiphoparchive.org provides information about all of our activities and projects and serves as a resource for those interested in knowing, developing, building, maintaining and representing Hiphop.

Trace the history of pop music songs using music industry chart data from the 1950s to the present. Search by song or date, and Billboard and global pop music charts online!

RECOMMENDED: Find magazine articles and reviews on music and musicians, and news articles from major newspapers previous to 1984.

...is the most important music research database on classical, pop, folk, and jazz music, as well as interdisciplinary studies on music. Abstracts and citations are drawn from journal articles, books, essays and chapters in books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, dissertations, etc.

"The ultimate archive of music journalism...over 20,000 CLASSIC ARTICLES on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, on all genres from rockabilly to hip hop, by the finest music writers of the last 50 years."