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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
This is THE standard music encyclopedia. Includes history of music in a particular country.

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Contemporary Musicians
Provides biographical information on important figures in today's musical arena, covering artists working in all genres of modern music, including rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel and reggae.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music This link opens in a new window
This online encyclopedia is devoted to music research of all the world's peoples with more than 1,200 essays and images and hundreds of audio examples.

African American Music Reference
Offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This database includes over 42,600 essays and images from 162 sources, over 67,000 pages and liner notes.

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Contains the full-text of hundreds of print reference titles and series, allowing you access to key reference sources without having to be in the library. Includes a variety of topics, and all titles in the Scribner's and Twayne's author series. Most Gale eBook titles can also be accessed through I-Share.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
An online collection of over 1000 reference books, covering a wide range of subjects, from art to technology. Credo Reference also includes a selection of specialized reference books from Sage Publishing.