jazz

JAZZ AND TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC

JAZZ RESEARCH

A. REFERENCE WORKS

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie. 2^nd ed. London: Macmillan; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, Inc., 2001. [NGII]

29 vols.

Also online at http://www.stetson.edu/library/databases.php

Choose Grove from the list of databases.

NGII now also includes the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

All Music Guide to Jazz: the Definitive Guide to Jazz Music. 4^th ed. Ann Arbor, MI: AMG, c2002.

Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Leonard Feather MAIN lib. Reference

Fire Music: A Bibliography of the New Jazz. MAIN lib. Reference

Jazz: the Essential Companion. NY: Prentice Hall, c1987.

Jazz Research and Performance Materials: A Select Annotated Bibliography. 2^nd

ed. NY: Garland, 1995.

Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD: the Comprehensive, Critical Guide to Recorded Jazz from Its Beginnings Until the Present. 4^th ed. NY: Penguin, 1998.

For other reference works, see instructions for searching Webcat below. Limit your search to 'book' (item type) and 'reference' (location) and 'library' (musiclib) to narrow your search to reference books housed in the Jenkins Music Library.

B. PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS

http://www.stetson.edu/library/

Link to the main library's webpage (URL above) and find the alphabetic list of databases. These are subscription databases which you may access from campus or home (see main library's page for instructions). Some restrict access to a few simultaneous users, so try again if you can't get in. See a librarian if you continue to have problems or get error messages.

For help in learning how to search databases, see the main library's guide at:

http://www2.stetson.edu/library/researchguide.doc

Note that Music Index is the only index Stetson subscribes to which is specific to music. It is not a full-text database and the citations retrieved must be checked against our periodical holdings. However, there is some cross-coverage from database to database, so the full article might be found in a different source. For articles we definitely don't own, use Interlibrary Loan (see link to form from main library page and order them online). Many other general databases contain music-related information. Titles in red indicate some full-text articles available.

Online journals (free access):

JazzTimes Magazine

http://www.jazztimes.com

Jazz Online

http://www.jazzonline.com

C. WEBCAT http://cat.stetson.edu

The holdings of both libraries are in Webcat, the online catalog.

LIMIT your search by:

library: all, main, music (musiclib)

item type: book, compact disc (cmpactdisc), periodical, score, record, or videocassette (videocass)

location of material: reference or shelves to

distinguish between circulating items and those kept at Reference

Note the current location to determine whether the item is checked out, on reserve, inprocess, or on-order.

Many of the jazz sources are divided between the two libraries: Reference sources (M, ML, MT) , circulating 'MT' classification (instruction/methods/technique books), and circulating 'ML' classification (books about music, including histories and biographies).

See main library's guide to searching Webcat:

http://www2.stetson.edu/library/using_webcat.pdf

note terms such as boolean, field, truncation symbol

($), limit, keyword, controlled vocabulary

D. WEB SITES

Given the vast nature of the Web, start with those sites which contain reliable, scholarly work on the subject. Some of them have meta-lists which they have already culled from the Web. Note that the ubiquitous Google has a feature which allows you to search by domain name, e.g., '.edu' for sites coming from educational institutions.

Meta-sites:

Sibelius Academy

http://www2.siba.fi/Kulttuuripalvelut/jazz-e.html

University of North Texas Jazz Research Portal

http://www.library.unt.edu/music/music-resources/jazz-research-portal

comes from the music library of the school with the no. 1

ranked jazz program

WNUR-FM Jazz Web from Northwestern University

http://www.northwestern.edu/jazz/

created by volunteers; highly recommended on most jazz sites

Worldwide Internet Music Resources from Indiana University

http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/