NOTE:
Links to library resources listed below may not work when this page is accessed from off-campus. To use these resources, please go to the Library Web Page, where you can connect to Articles and Databases, Reference Sources, and Electronic Journals and Newspapers after providing your Elmhurst College email login and password. If you do not know your E.C. login and password, please see Computer Services, Room 107 CSTC.

Locating Articles with Library Resources

The following library databases cover music as well as popular culture. Be sure to evaluate the sources in these databases before using them.
 

Use Illinet Online to determine if the library owns the journal in print or microfilm, and check Journals and Magazines Available Online for electronic access to journals. If the article you seek is unavailable from these sources, please request it using our online Interlibrary Loan article request form.

Locating Books and Sound Recordings in the A.C. Buehler Library

Reference Sources

• The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz - R 781.65 N532g 1994
• Jazz Discography - R 781.650266 L867j
• Contemporary Musicians - R 780.904 C761

Books on Reserve for this course:

• Carner, Gary, ed. The Miles Davis Companion: Four Decades of Commentary. New York: Schirmer, 1996.
• Chambers, Jack. Milestones: the Music and Times of Miles Davis. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998.
• Frankl, Ron. Miles Davis. New York: Chelsea House, 1996.
• Kirchner, Bill, ed. A Miles Davis Reader. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
• Nisenson, Eric. 'Round About Midnight: a Portrait of Miles Davis. New York: Da Capo Press, 1996.

• Jazz history and criticism
• Jazz musicians

Finding Jazz Information on the Internet
 

• Miles Ahead v2.0 - a great place to start; includes a huge amount of information about Miles Davis' recordings; see also the links to:
• Davis Bibliography
• Other Davis websites
• Jazz links
• Milestones: A Miles Davis World Wide Web Site
• Kind of Blue: the making of the Miles Davis masterpiece - excerpts from a forthcoming book by Ashley Kahn, also includes information about the recording

• Contemporary List of Jazz Links - "the biggest list of Jazz links you've ever seen in your life!"
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources: Jazz - from the Cook Music Library, Indiana University
• WWW sites of interest to Musicologists: Jazz

Using the Internet for Research

• The Spider's Apprentice: How to Use Web Search Engines
• Britannica Internet Guide - "The Web's Best Sites," chosen by the editors of Encyclopedia Britannica
• The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly; or, Why it's a good idea to evaluate Web sources
• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals

• MLA Format - from the University of Illinois
• Using MLA Format - from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab
• Documenting Sources from the World Wide Web - from MLA
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers  5th ed. (R)808.042 M685 1999