and the band plays on

Over the weekend, several of my friends posted You Tube videos of current and past musicians. It inspired me to rummage through our LP collection and play a few discs.

While wandering down memory lane, I wondered what info I could find in GALILEO. I was pretty sure there was a music database. Imagine my surprise when I did a database search and discovered - nope, no music database for the tech college. Hmm...I scrolled through the databases we do have, wondering which might give me information about musicians - Encyclopædia Britannica seemed like a good bet but I thought surely there's something more. And yes, we subscribe to Credo Reference. Our subscription is to the complete Credo with 487 reference works and over 3 million full text entries!

Under the subject, Music, Credo offers these 7 reference works (with a see also):

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Locations

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Media, Industry and Society

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and Production

The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

The Harvard Dictionary of Music

The New Penguin Dictionary of Music

and a see also for A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda

We do have a resource in GALILEO that can help you find more information (citable information) about a musician!


-kls

The current password to use GALILEO is available from your Georgia librarian. Credo is a database that CTC library subscribes to and is available through our portion of GALILEO.