ICSM 10800-04: Texts, Drafts, & Rock and Roll
Subject Searches
Searching by subject guarantees your results will have a specific focus. Here are a few to try for your upcoming assignment:
Keyword Searches
Searching by keyword can help you identify relevant items you might have missed. Here are some hints to remember:
Searching by subject guarantees your results will have a specific focus. Here are a few to try for your upcoming assignment:
- Music trade
- Sound recording industry
- Music trade -- Vocational guidance
- Music and technology
Keyword Searches
Searching by keyword can help you identify relevant items you might have missed. Here are some hints to remember:
- too many results? limit your result set (demo)
- use the truncation symbol (?) to search variants of terms ("consum?" searches for consumer, consumers, etc)
Search one or more of our databases to find articles in journals, magazines, & newspapers on your topic.
Multidisciplinary databases (coverage of all subject areas & good places to start)
Music-specific database (popular & classical music)
Multidisciplinary databases (coverage of all subject areas & good places to start)
- ProQuest Research Library
- Academic Search Premier
- General OneFile
Music-specific database (popular & classical music)
- Music Index (online)
Index to music periodicals, popular & scholarly. 1972 to the present.
- Text not online? Look for the Article Linker arrow to double-check.

- Limit to scholarly journal articles before you search. Here's how.
- Stop by the Music Center for help with any of this!
