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CBCA Reference & Current Events

CBCA Reference is a key source for Canadian information. It provides in depth access to a wide diversity of Canadian periodicals, ranging from academic titles to special interest publications to general magazines, including those with a focus on lifestyles, arts and culture.
Rock Music Scholarship : An Interdisciplinary Bibliography / Jeffrey N. Gatten.

Located at MUSIC REFERENCE: ML128.R6G37 1995
International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Rock's Backpages [electronic resource] : the ultimate library of rock music writing and journalism.

Rock reviews, articles and interviews from the late 1950s to the present day.
ProQuest Research Library

Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology. Coverage: 1971-current. Use for MIT: general mass media studies including communications theory, media and society, media and politics, media and economics, popular music, and film studies. Use for Music: popular/world music studies.
Hit songs, 1900-1955 : American popular music of the pre-rock era / Don Tyler.

A chronology of the most popular songs in America from the years before rock 'n' roll.
Located at MUSIC REFERENCE: ML128.P63T95 2007

Finding CDs, LPs and Videos.

The Music Library's handy guide for finding audio and video resources in the Western Libraries Catalogue.
Naxos Music Library [electronic resource]

The newest addition to our online subscriptions (i.e. use the Off-Campus Access link to input your WesterOne username and password), NAXOS Music Library offers streamed access to 55,000+ recordings and adds some 800 recordings each month. Genres include classical, blues, jazz, nostalgia, pop, rock and many more. You can search by composer, performer, label; create playlists for classes, find opera libretti and synopses, and analyses and details of works (available recordings, instrumentation, duration).

Who Owns What - The Columbia Journalism Review

As the title implies - an extremely useful resource to determine the range and variety of holdings, as owned by conglomerates.

Music Directory Canada

Location: Music REFERENCE : ML21.M885
Contains information on: associations, booking agents, concert venues, custom duplicators, financial services, lawyers, sound & lighting companies, promotion & publicity companies, radio stations - including campus radio, record producers, recording studios, touring networks, and more.

Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th ed. (online) / edited by Colin Larkin

Offers a "broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music."
Wikipedia

While NOT recommended for classical music research, WIKIPEDIA is an EXCELLENT resource for Popular Music Studies.

Academic Charts Online (Popular Music Chart data)

ACO facilitates research into Popular Music by offering pop music chart data for international pop music albums and singles (under exclusive academic licence from Billboard, the Official Charts Company). Sophisticated tools allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare and contrast musical trends and interactions at the touch of a button. Listen to audio samples for each track and album quickly and easily.