Research Guides: WRPR 166: Tuning In (HC) Fall 2014: Finding Books & Book Chapters

Finding Books

Use TRIPOD to find books and other material owned by the Tri-College libraries.

Use WorldCat to find books not held by the Tri-College libraries.

In order to find books in either catalog, conduct either a relevant:

Keyword Search:

E.g.,

blues AND (segregation OR "jim crow")

blues AND music AND (wom?n OR gender)

(See the Search Tips tab for more information on how to construct keyword searches.)

Or Subject Search:

E.g.,

Blues (Music) History and criticism [Tripod]

Blues (Music) [Tripod]

Blues (Music) Mississippi History and criticism [WorldCat] — compare with results in Tripod

African Americans Southern States Social conditions 20th century [Tripod]

African Americans History [Tripod]

African Americans Music History and criticism [Tripod]

Sound Recording and reproducing History [Tripod]

(Use the Browse Books & More link or use the Advanced Search function [limited to the subject field] to find additional subject headings.)

Tripod: Books & More
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The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, journals, dissertations, films, and other material owned by the tri-college libraries. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to Magill or another library.

WorldCat
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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Borrowing Beyond the Tri-Co
Request items that are not available in Tripod through E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan. Note that E-Z Borrow is the first place to look for books not in Tripod. It usually takes just three days for E-Z Borrow books to arrive. Books not in E-Z Borrow can come from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) which may take as little as four or five days to arrive.

For journal articles not available in the three colleges, use the Article Delivery form. In around 3 days you will receive a digital copy of the requested articles in your email.

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Selected Books

Blues: The Basics by Dick Weissman
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ISBN: 9780415970679
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
A brief introduction to a century of the blues. The book is organized chronologically, focusing on the major eras in blues' growth and development. Each chapter includes a timeline relating significant social and historical events to developments in the blues. The book concludes with lists of key recordings, books, and videos.
Jim Crow's Counterculture: the blues and Black southerners, 1890-1945 by R. A. Lawson
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ISBN: 9780807136805
Publication Date: 2010-11-01
Offers a cultural history of blues musicians in the segregation era, explaining how by both accommodating and resisting Jim Crow life, blues musicians created a counterculture to incubate and nurture ideas of black individuality and citizenship.
The History of the Blues by Francis Davis
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ISBN: 0786860529
Publication Date: 1995-02-01
"Discusses the history of blues music from its origins in the Mississippi Delta to its peak in Chicago right after World War II to its current popularity with whites in urban clubs. Includes a timeline showing how events in the larger society had an impact on the music."
The Sound Studies Reader by Sterne
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ISBN: 9780415771306
Publication Date: 2012-08-11
The Sound Studies Reader blends recent work that self-consciously describes itself as 'sound studies' along with earlier and lesser-known scholarship on sound from across the humanities and social sciences. The Sound Studies Reader touches on key themes like noise and silence; architecture, acoustics and space; media and reproducibility; listening, voices and disability; culture, community, power and difference; and shifts in the form and meaning of sound across cultures, contexts and centuries.
Nobody Knows Where the Blues Come From: Lyrics and History
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ISBN: 1578067979
Publication Date: 2005-11-01
Eight critiques, resulting from years of research, make up this text. The collection presents African American popular music as a self-contained cultural domain and as a form of oral history which continues to be a permanent source of enlightenment shining light on several dark corners of official history.