Literature and Arts B-82: Sayin' Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility, and Social Dialogue

2. Finding Materials in the HOLLIS catalog

HOLLIS searching: Try "Anywhere" keyword searching on terms such as:
Experiment* and jazz (truncation for word variants)
Jazz and race
Jazz and diaspora
"Hip hop" and jazz
Improvisation and jazz

Subjects often work better than keyword searches; go to Expanded Search and choose Subject Words. These are just a highly selective sampling to get you started.

Format: In Expanded Search, select Books or Audio Music.

General

Free jazz
Improvisaton (music)
Jazz -- To 1921
Jazz -- 1921-1930 (insert decade)
Jazz -- bibliography
Jazz -- bio-bibliography
Jazz -- dictionaries
Jazz -- discography -- indexes
Jazz -- discography -- methodology
Jazz -- discography -- periodicals
Jazz -- encyclopedias
Jazz -- history and criticism
Jazz -- periodicals -- indexes
Jazz -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography (includes Buddy Bolden, George Lewis)
Jazz -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History and criticism
Jazz musicians - United States - Biography

Diaspora

African American jazz musicians -- Europe
Jazz -- Europe -- History and criticism
African Americans -- Europe -- Music -- History and criticism
Blacks -- Music -- History and criticism
Music -- Africa -- History and criticism

Performers
Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986
Coleman, Ornette
Coleman, Ornette -- Discography
Sun Ra
Sun Ra Arkestra

Louis Armstrong
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 -- Criticism and interpretation
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 -- Discography

John Coltrane

Coltrane, John, 1926-67.
---. -- Criticism and interpretation.
---. -- Discography.
---. -- Manuscripts.

Miles Davis

Davis, Miles.
---. --Criticism and interpretation.
---. --Discography.
---. --kind of blue.

Duke Ellington

Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974.
---. -- Chronology.
---. -- Criticism and interpretation.
---. -- Discography.
---. -- Manuscripts.

Charles Mingus

Mingus, Charles, 1922-.
---. -- Criticism and interpretation.
---. -- Interviews.

Charlie Parker

Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955.
---. --Criticism and interpretation.
---. --Discography.

Women in Jazz

Women jazz musicians
Women jazz musicians -- Biography
Women jazz musicians -- Interviews

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