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Popular Music Research: Books

This guide helps students find resources related to popular music.

Finding books

Search the catalog below for books and ebooks. Here are some tips:

  • Keep your search simple
  • Don't search entire sentences
  • Don't expect to find a book about a specific song or album. Start by searching by the name of the performer or band or genre
  • Use quotemarks to search phrases, for example, "99 problems"

Prof. Berger created a public bibliography of books by professors and other scholars on rock. It doesn't have hip-hop or rap, country, or other non-rock genres in it. 

The older books can you be browsed by discipline and methodology; newer books are slowly being added.