Musicians/Songwriters—Their
Lives, Times, and Music
This research guide will assist
you as you search IMC resources for information about musicians who write their
own music and/or lyrics. You will be
able to access information about their lives (biography), their music (including
song lyrics), and the historical background which influenced their work.
Books eBooks Databases Websites
Book Sources
The IMC has a large
collection of books about musicians.
Click here to use
Destiny to conduct a Power search for book sources on individual
musicians, time periods and genres.
Jersey Cat-- Use Jersey Cat to order books from other libraries in the
state.
Need Help?
Click
here
Conduct
a
“power search” for your
musician by typing his or her name in the search box.
Databases
–Click
on the links to search for information about the musician and his or her times.
Biographies
American National Biography Online
from Oxford University Press
Biography
Collection Complete from Ebsco
Gale Biography
in Context from Gale
Discovering
Biography, which is part of the Discovering Collection from Gale
Oxford Music
Online from Oxford University Press
Historical
Information
African
American History Online from Facts on File
American History
from ABC-CLIO
American
History Online from Facts on File
American
Women's History Online from Facts on File
Daily
Life Through History from ABC-CLIO
Daily
Life Through History from Greenwood
Discovering
Collection - History from Gale
History
Reference Center from Ebsco
Gale World
History in Context from Gale
Gale U.S.
History in Context from Gale
SIRS Decades from Proquest
Women's Studies
Encyclopedia from Greenwood
World History:
Modern from ABC-CLIO
Modern World History
Online from Facts on File
Magazines - All of the
databases provide magazine and newspaper articles, but these databases
have complete and current full-text articles and are archived from
1987.
MasterFile
Premier from Ebsco (for magazine articles and pictures- Contains Rolling
Stone and People, among others
SIRS Researcher from Proquest
Newspapers
Newspaper
Source - from Ebsco
Proquest's Historical Newspapers (1860 to
1997)
Websites – Be careful when using these. Sometimes they move.
Guitar Gods
100 Greatest Guitarist from Rolling Stone Magazine
Guitar Gods Images - from Google images
50 Greatest Guitarist - poll from LA Times Magazine
25 Greatest Jazz Guitarists
Google Search - enter the name of the Guitarist and home page as your search terms
To find song
lyrics:
http://www.sing365.com
http://www.elyrics.net
http://www.lyricsnmusic.com/
To get further
information about the years in which the artists lived:
http://www.historicaltimeline.com/default.htm
http://www.animatedatlas.com/timeline.html
