Trexler Library | Muhlenberg College

Women in Music

Need help with your research? Contact:

Kelly Cannon
Outreach and Scholarly Communication Librarian
Humanities & Business Subject Specialist
phone: x3602
email: kcannon@muhlenberg.edu
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Where can I find authoritative biographical sketches of women in music?

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Trexler Library Reference 780.3 N532n)
Signed entries by experts. Authoritative source of information for nearly all peformers or composers listed on class handout.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online (subscription version)
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Online Reference Shelf
Search on a name, then from within the entry, choose the links to "The Web's Best Sites" and "Britannica Web Search."

Encyclopedia Britannica Online (free version) (http://www.britannica.com/)
Search on a name, then from within the entry, choose the link to "Internet Guide."

Where can I find ongoing controversies surrounding a particular performer or composer?

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Unsigned articles. Seek corroboration.

What about full-length biographies and other books on women in music?

Trexler Library Catalog
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website (http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library) > catalog.
Catalog of all books and documents in Trexler Library at Muhlenberg College.

WorldCat
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Books, Videos, Music
Catalog of books and documents in libraries throughout the world. Watch especially for the AREA LIBRARIES designation. Use E-ZBorrow for faster interlibrary loan.

E-ZBorrow
NOTE: Access from Trexler Library website >Books, Videos, Music > E-ZBorrow
A catalog of books and documents in the libraries of PALCI, to which Muhlenberg College belongs. Submit interlibrary loan requests here for rapid delivery.

Where can I find recent news about an artist published in newspapers and magazines such as Billboard?

Academic Search Premier
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Includes many popular magazines, including music and media publications such as Billboard.

LexisNexis Academic
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Archive of hundreds of newspapers, such as the New York Times. Updated daily.

What about scholarly articles on women in music?

Communication and Mass Media Complete
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Deals extensively with the subject of gender and media: such as women celebrity performers.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
Scholarly articles on many aspects of gender and music.

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
An open-access web crawler that looks for content it identifies as "scholarly." Emphasis is on books and journal articles. Not always full text. Check our library's online catalog (see above) to see if Muhlenberg has access to the full text of a journal.

America History and Life ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
(http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/articles/databases/alphabetical.html)
A subscription database. Standard index for American history. Some full text links.

Historical Abstracts ***RECOMMENDED***
NOTE: Access from the Trexler Library website > Articles A to Z
(http://www.muhlenberg.edu/library/articles/databases/alphabetical.html)
A subscription database. Standard index for European history. Some full text links.