Finding Scholarship
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Music Index(Searches through citation information)
Wide ranging content from scholarly articles to book reviews on all aspects of classical and popular music. Covers 1970 - current.
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Sample Catalyst Search for scholarship on Black music and musiciansAdd more search terms on a 3rd line (click "add a new line"), or adjust the search terms on the first two lines to narrow your search.
CONTENT WARNING: Catalyst relies on the Library of Congress Subject Headings to apply subject tags to works. These Subjects are highly codified and often use outdated and/or offensive vocabulary to refer to people and topics. Here are the phrases to use if you want to search for works about common BIPOC groups (and feel free to ask me if you are having trouble finding what you need).
-- "African American"
-- "Indians of North America"
-- "Hispanic Americans"
-- "Asian Americans"
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Academic Search Premier(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Contains scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines from across the disciplines and from popular culture. Much of the content is available in full text. An ELM Database. -
America: History & Life(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Contains information about scholarly articles on the history and culture of the U. S. and Canada. (For World History, use Historical Abstracts)
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Black Popular Music (from the TriCollege Libraries)Some of the links on this research guide from the TriColleges won't work at Carleton, but there are many suggestions for books and journals that are useful to researchers of the intersections of race and music.
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Historical Abstracts(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The primary place to find scholarship on world history. (For U.S. and Canadian History, use America: History and Life). Covers publications from 1955 - present.
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Popular Music and Society
Search or browse through this journal for articles on the relationship between music and society.
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PsycINFO(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
The premier search tool for all areas of psychology and related disciplines. Covers 1840 - current.
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Sociological Abstracts(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Main index to research in sociology, anthropology, and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963 - current. -
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
This is the core disciplinary index to political science journal articles. Broad coverage of political science along with complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration & policy. Covers 1975 - present.
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Find dissertations and some masters theses from universities in 88 countries. Most documents published since 1997 also include the full text. Covers 1861 - current.
NOTE: For international dissertations and theses not available through this tool, check CRL, and if they have the document you can order it through Interlibrary Loan.
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EThOS: online doctoral theses from the British LibraryEThOS is working toward a goal of having records for all doctoral theses from the UK dating back to 1800, and full text for as many of these as can be managed.
"Cited By"
Works the cited a particular original work.
- Search for a topic or work in Google Scholar
- Click the "cited by" link under a relevant result
- The resulting works will all cite the first work
"Related"
Works the cite many of the same things that a particular work cites.
- Search for a topic or work in Google Scholar
- Click the "Related Articles" link under a relevant result
- The resulting works will cite one or more articles that the first work cited
Searching within a result list
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Checking the "search within citing items" box at the top of the result list and then entering a new search.
Digital Primary Sources
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DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music(Searches through citation information)
Access to streaming music and liner notes. The DRAM collection is focused on hard-to-find yet culturally and academically important music.
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FolkCloud.comUser-submitted examples of original folk and traditional music of the different countries, nations and ethnic groups of the world.
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The Freedom ArchiveThese collections chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements for liberation and social justice.
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Internet Archive - Audio CollectionsThis library contains recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users.
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Music Resources for Diversity, Equity, and Antiracism (from Tufts University)The aim of this research guide is to amplify the repertoire, music, and scholarship about and by Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC). Other pages on this guide may link to resources not available at Carleton, but the Discover Diverse Repertoire page should have many options for you to explore.
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Smithsonian Global Sound(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Includes audio files from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings comprising a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
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Songs of Politics and Political Campaigns - Library of CongressA sub-collection within the Library of Congress Digital Collections.
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Songs of Social Change - Library of CongressA sub-collection within the Library of Congress Digital Collections.
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DPLA: Digital Public Library of America(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and transcripts)
Aggregates millions of digital items from major libraries and collections across the country, including Carleton College. -
Human Rights Studies Online(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and transcripts)
Provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes both primary and secondary materials. -
Independent VoicesAn open access digital collection of 20th century alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, and extreme right-wing groups.
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Internet archiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access to current and historical web content.
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Library of Congress Digital Collections(Searches through citations and subject indexing)
Contains texts, sound recordings, still and moving images, maps, and sheet music from the Library of Congress that document American History.
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ProQuest History Vault(Searches through citations and the full text)
Fully searchable, digitized archival collections having to do with American history. Carleton has collections available in these topic areas: American Indians and the American West; American Politics and Society; Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle; International Relations and Military Conflicts; Latinx History; Revolutionary War and Early America; Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War; and Women's Studies. Browse full contents. -
Slavery, Abolition, and Social JusticePrimary source documents dating from 1490 to the near present from across the Atlantic world relating to the complex subjects of slavery, abolition, and social justice.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000(Searches through citations and the full text)
An archive of digitized primary documents and teaching tools on Women and Social Movements in the U.S. Covers 1600 - 2000.
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African American Periodicals, 1825-1995(Searches through citations and the full text)
Contains the full text of over 170 African-American periodicals from 26 states printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Covers 1825 - 1995. -
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive(Searches through citations and the full text)
An archival collection of magazines related to the history of the film, music, and entertainment industries, 1880 - 2000. -
Independent VoicesAn open access digital collection of 20th century alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, and extreme right-wing groups.
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Rock's BackpagesArticles on rock and popular music collected from hundreds of magazines, newspapers, and websites.
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African American Newspapers, Series 1, 1827-1998(Searches through citations and the full text)
Contains the full text of nearly 300 African-American newspapers from 35 states printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries. Covers 1827 - 1998. -
Alternative Press Index(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
An index of alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines from around the world. It focuses on emerging theories and practices of radical social change, socialism, national liberation, labor, Indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. Covers 1969 - current. -
AP Images(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Search through the photographs, illustrations, and other images taken or created by the Associated Press since 1826. Search by simple keyword or by complex searches such as concept, color, and category. 1826 - current. -
Ethnic NewsWatch(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Search through the full text of newspapers, magazines, and journals published in the U.S by ethnic, minority, and native presses. Covers 1991 - current. -
Hispanic American Newspapers (1808-1980)(Searches through citations and the full text)
Includes full text of English-language and Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries, 1808 - 1980. -
Independent VoicesAn open access digital collection of 20th century alternative press newspapers, magazines, and journals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, and extreme right-wing groups.
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ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers(Searches through citations and the full text)
Full-text and full-image articles from 10 African-American newspapers spanning the 20th century from their first issue until about 2010. Earliest papers go back to 1893. -
ProQuest Historical Newspapers(Searches through citations and the full text)
Full-text and full-image articles for major newspapers from the United States (including Historical Black Newspapers); plus Le Monde, the Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post (1903-2001) and the Times of India. Each paper is available from its first issue through about 2013 (depending on the paper). Earliest papers start in 1851. -
ProQuest Newsstream(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
A broad collection of newspaper articles published across the U.S.. Covers 1995 - current for most newspapers. An ELM Database.
