LibGuides: MUR 125: History of Rock Music: Home

About this course

This course explores the history of rock music, emphasizing primarily the period between 1955-1990. Discussion and reading focusing on identifying a variety of rock-music styles within the historical context of the development, transformation, and interaction of pop styles. Issues of technological development, social, political, and cultural context, race and gender, and music-business practices will also be considered.

Government Information, Economics, Law and Music Librarian

Kathy Wu

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585-273-5322
I am available for one-on-one virtual consultation through Zoom.

I am also the librarian for the English for Academic Purposes Program.

Subjects:Data & Statistics, Debate, Economics, Government Information, Law, Music

Related Sites

River Campus Music Department
SIbley Music Library homepage
Eastman School of Music
The Rest is Noise
Blog by the articulate author and music reviewer for The New Yorker magazine. Many good links to other blogs and music sites.
NYTimes Arts and Music
Current events and news in the arts world

Writing about Music

Writing about Music by D. Kern Holoman
ISBN: 9780520958814
Publication Date: 2014-09-05
Irvine's Writing about Music by Demar Irvine; Mark A. Radice
ISBN: 1574670492
Publication Date: 2003-03-01
A Short Guide to Writing about Music by Jonathan D. Bellman
ISBN: 0321187911
Publication Date: 2006-04-20

Writing and Citing Help at UR

Writing and Citing Guide
Provides links to easy to use guides to citing in MLA, APA and other popular citation styles and resources to help you hone your writing skills.
Writing Help from the Writing, Speaking and Argument Center
The Writing, Speaking and Argument Center can help you at any stage of the writing process. Whether you need a quick help sheet, or an appointment with a writing consultant, there are many resources available at here.

Frequently Used Music Links

River Campus Libraries
Your link to the UR Catalog and other information about the UR Libraries
CD and Sound Recording Search
This searches for sound recordings in the Art/Music library. There is also a link to Naxos Classical Music database, with free listening.
SIbley Music Library homepage

Oxford Music Online
Full text encyclopedia of all aspects of classical, contemporary, world, and popular music.
Create a personal profile to save content and annotations.

River Campus Music Department

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
Expands and enhances the global bibliography of writings on music with the addition of a million pages of full-text content from more than 200 key periodicals, many of which are not available anywhere else online.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project. Over 300,000 online scores in the public domain. Extremely useful!

Eastman School of Music

Music Databases

Oxford Music Online
Full text encyclopedia of all aspects of classical, contemporary, world, and popular music.
Create a personal profile to save content and annotations.

Oxford Bibliographies: Music
Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians worldwide, Oxford Bibliographies offers exclusive, authoritative research guides. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.

Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Covers a variety of musical genres from 1900 to the present, including jazz, country, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
A comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material.
Met Opera on Demand
Instant access to more than 700 full-length Met performances with the online streaming database.
Music Index
Identifies articles on music.
Naxos Music Library
Streamed access to and information about Naxos recordings.

Classical, jazz, world, folk, and Chinese music are represented. Liner notes, as well as biographical information on composers and artists, are also available.
Naxos Jazz
The jazz/R&B/roots music portion of the catalog comprises the Fantasy group of labels (Pablo, Original Jazz Classics, Prestige, Milestone, Stax/Volt, Riverside, Jazzland, Specialty, Takoma, Kicking Mule, Debut, Contemporary/Good Time Jazz, Bluesville, and others).
RIPM Music Periodicals
Identifies articles on music published between the late 1700's and the 1950's. Complements RILM Music Abstracts.

Articles were published in Europe and the U.S. and may be in any of twelve languages.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology: DDM
Identifies dissertations-in-progress and completed dissertations reported since 1995, arranged by broad categories.
Music Industry Data
Presents over 60 years of data about music charts, popular, jazz, and classical styles.

Includes tools to analyze, compare and contrast artists, songs, trends, and statistics.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
IMSLP stands for International Music Score Library Project. Over 300,000 online scores in the public domain. Extremely useful!

Digital Resources for Musicology
This website provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Cylinder recordings, the first commercially produced sound recordings, are a snapshot of musical and popular culture in the decades around the turn of the 20th century. With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of over 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. In an effort to bring these recordings to a wider audience, they can be freely downloaded or streamed online. On this site you will have the opportunity to find out more about the cylinder format, listen to thousands of musical and spoken selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discover a little-known era of recorded sound.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is a not-for-profit streamed audio resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. DRAM offers on-demand, high-quality (192kbps/MP4) streaming access to complete works. DRAM is accessible only at the Eastman School of Music, but does not limit the number of users at any one time.
National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. The Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925.

Films on Demand
This video streaming database contains 24,192 titles spanning just about every subject area: performing arts, visual arts, social sciences and the “hard” sciences. The Music & Dance category contains 900 films covering a huge variety of music and dance.

UR Catalog Search (using Articles, Books & More)

Use the Catalog Search in Articles, Books & More to search specifically for books or journal titles or other materials available at the University of Rochester Library. Use the full Articles & Books for searching for article authors and titles.

Need More?

WorldCat.org
Identifies and locates books and other materials owned by libraries in the Rochester region and nationally.
tags: firstsearch, first search, world cat, worldcat

Interlibrary Loan
Not finding the article or book you need in the library? Use this free service to obtain library resources. A pdf of an article is usually delivered in 24 - 48 hours.
Recommend a purchase
If you think the library should purchase a copy of a book, report, or other types of materials, please fill out this form to let us know. UR login required.

Finding a book in the Stacks in Rush Rhees

Interesting random music stuff to explore

Sound expanse
a blog about experimental music by author Jennie Gottschalk
The rest is noise
Alex Ross writes for the New Yorker and this blog about all sorts of musical styles and happenings.
Classical Voice North America
The online journal of the Music Critics Association of North America; lots of articles about music around the world.
NPR Deceptive Cadence
National Public Radio's classical music blog, with audio articles.

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