This guide is for students in Penn State Harrisburg's AFAM 226N, AMST 197B, COMM 197B, and other courses focusing on hip-hop and rap. It includes databases, research tips, and other resources for various assignments.
Includes scholarly journals, professional (trade) magazines, and popular magazines, mostly from the mid-1990s to the present. To the left of your results, limit your search by "Source Type" if you need to focus on a particular type of publication.
Music Periodicals Database, formerly known as International Index to Music Periodicals, indexes over 425 music journals and magazines, with about 140 of the journals available in full text. Coverage emphasizes publications since 1996, but some older journals are indexed as far back as the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.
Scholarly journals and popular magazines pertaining to Black Studies, both in the United States and globally.
Black Studies Periodicals Database (Formerly International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text) draws its current content from more than 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies and contains full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals. It covers a wide array of humanities-related disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology among others.
Helpful for finding scholarly articles on hip-hop and rap in broader humanities and social sciences journals.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that provides a trusted archive of important scholarly journals and a selection of scholarly books. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. While indexing for JSTOR articles is covered in LionSearch, the full text of the articles is not searched in LionSearch. Search JSTOR itself to ensure detailed coverage of full texts.