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Key Databases

Oxford Music Online
Comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Search by instrument, era, region, and more.

Music Periodicals Database
Supports music scholarship, theory, and practice with indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals. Coverage from 1874 to current.
Music Index
Indexing and abstracts covering every aspect of classical and popular music. Coverage from 1970 to present.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
Bibliography on writings about music with some full-text articles. Covers traditional music, popular music, classical music, and more. Coverage from the early 19th century to present.
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Academic Search Complete
This multidisciplinary database covers magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers and is a good place to start for any subject.
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Music & Performing Arts
An audio and video collection for classical, opera, jazz, world, popular music, and American music. Also includes theatre, dance, and film resources.

YouTube
A wide range of historic and contemporary country music can be found on YouTube. Please be aware that in many cases this content may have been uploaded to the site without the permission of the copyright holder.