Music Databases

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Contains entries on all aspects of music, including composers, conductors, performers, directors, critics, producers and designers, individual works, orchestras and companies from around the world, famous musical venues, musical terms, styles and forms, instruments and more.

Provides access to thousands of journals, books and other published sources from around the world covering a broad range of humanities topics. Includes data from Humanities International Index. Funded by BadgerLink.

A multidisiplinary and fulltext archive of scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.

Curated by a community of music scholars, students, teachers and librarians, the Open Music Library brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books and music scores from the world’s digital collections. Includes thousands of links to free resources.

A multi-disciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed journals, newspapers and magazines, books, reports, conference proceedings, and other publications.

An online encyclopedia that cover blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

This is a living collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day. Resources are organized chronologically and by genre for ease of browsing. For more information about that decision and the curation process, please visit the about page.

Comprises essays written by expert contributors, as well as images and audio examples covering music of all the world's peoples.

Offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Coverage: 1995-present