Subject
Research Guides
Music:
Women in Music
This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of topics related to women in music.
Background Information Sources
Available in the Library's reference area:
| Current Biography Yearbook (multiple volumes) | REF CT100 .C8 (Annual) |
| Women's Studies Encyclopedia (3 vols; see "Music") | REF HQ1115 .W645 1999 |
| Great Lives from History/American Women Series (5 vols.) | REF HQ1412 .G74 1995 |
| Women and Music in America Since 1900: an Encyclopedia (2 vols.) | REF ML82 .W625 2002 |
| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (10 volumes, 10 CDs) | REF ML100 .G16 1998 |
| New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (29 volumes) | REF ML100 .N48 2001 |
| New Oxford Companion to Music (2 volumes) | REF ML100.O835 1983 |
| New Grove Dictionary Of American Music (4 vols.; see "Women") | REF ML101 .U6 N48 1986 |
| Bakers Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (6 volumes) | REF ML105 .B16 2001 |
| Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music | REF ML105 .H38 1996 |
| Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers | REF ML105 .N67 1994 |
| Women in American Music | REF ML128 .W7 B6 |
Books
Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the ML (Music) call number range.
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Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles
- Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
- General Reference Center Gold/InfoTrac: reviews, newspaper articles, and other articles.
- Biography Resource Center/InfoTrac: extensive full-text, in-depth biographies
- LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.
Internet Resources
Several Internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available on Web Resources page; follow link for Music.
- Univ. of Indiana Music Resources http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/women.html
links to sites about women in music assembled by Indiana University School of Music - International Alliance for Women in Music
http://www.iawm.org/
IAWM promotes gender equality in music; site includes a list of resources - ACRL Women in Music http://www.library.umaine.edu/reference/Lewis/wsslinks/wommus.htm
women's music links from the Association of College and Research Libraries - Kapralova Society: Women in Music
http://www.kapralova.org/INTPROJECT.htm
resources on women in music from a nonprofit arts organization in Canada