4. Finding Reviews & Articles
Reviews (Performances, Recordings)
Contemporary:
LexisNexis Academic (Harvard Users, 1980s-present, Full Text, good for major newspapers, New York Times, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Variety, etc.):
Select the News tab (default); in the "Select Sources" menu, choose "Book, Movie, Music, Play and Video Reviews"; change date default (set for previous 3 months).
Music Index (Harvard Users, 1976-present): Indexes scholarly publications and magazines such as Billboard, Rolling Stone, and other jazz titles.
Also try keyword or subject searches in:
International Index to Music Periodicals (Harvard users)
JSTOR Music (Harvard users)
and other music periodical databases
Historical:
--Print indexes to journals such as Music Index (Loeb Music Library holds 1949-2006, located in Aldrich Reading Room, ML118.M84 ).
Find others by searching index title in HOLLIS (format type serial).
--Readers Guide Retrospective (Harvard Users, 1890-1982): indexes popular and general interest magazines published in the United States and Canada; stronger than Music Index for jazz literature in 1940s-50s.
Search Strategies: Try keyword or subject searching on performer, composition, style, album titles, etc. Ex: "Miles Davis" and "modal jazz"; "Ella Fitzgerald" and "record sales"; "Wynton Marsalis" and "Lincoln Center".
For more sources (both periods) see Finding Concert Reviews.
E-Research @ Harvard Libraries: Find electronic journals, resources and databases, across disciplines, save citations, and more. If you have partial information about an article, try using Citation Linker to locate. Find It @ Harvard links in database results lead to full text.