WR150: Bob Dylan's Lyrics

Subject Headings.
Reference Works.
Indexes and Databases.
Additional Links.

SUBJECT HEADINGS.

Representative subject headings for locating books in the Boston University online Catalog include the following:

beat generation
beat generation in literature
dylan bob
ginsberg allen 1926-1997
guthrie woody 1912-1967
kerouac jack 1922-1969
popular music united states
rock music united states

You can also search by author in the online catalog. For example:

dylan bob 1941

REFERENCE WORKS.

Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact. 2005.: Mugar Ref X PS228 B6 B368 2005
The Bob Dylan Concordance. 1992.: Music Ref PS3554 Y56 Z459 1992
The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. 2006.: Music Ref ML420 D98 G68 2006

Britannica Online. (BU-px)

The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature. (BU-px)

Grove Music. (BU-px)

Keys to the Rain: The Definitive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. 2004.: Music Ref ML420 D98 T72 2004

The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. 2004.: Mugar Ref X PS21 E537 2004

INDEXES AND DATABASES.

ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature) 1920 - . (ChRiv-px): The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature contains 860,000 records, covering monographs, periodical articles, critical editions of literary works, book reviews and collections of essays published anywhere in the world from 1920 onwards.
Academic OneFile. (BU-px): Comprehensive database containing mroe than 11,000 journals in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and more.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. 1975 - .(BU-px).: Provides author, subject and citation access to the literature inthe humanities. Includes book reviews.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. (BU-px): Comprehensive index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
Communication & Mass Media Complete. (BU-px): Database covering journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
Contemporary Authors; Contemporary Literary Criticism; Dictionary of Literary Biography. (BU-px): Contemporary Authors provides a comprehensive collection of biographies of currently active authors. Contemporary Literary Criticism Select provides excerpts from critical works on most major twentieth century writers, grouped by individual titles within an author's body of work. Dictionary of Literary Biography contains detailed literary biographies of authors from a wide variety of genres, nationalities, and literary forms.
Humanities Full Text. 1983 - .(ChRiv-px).: Indexes and abstracts periodical literature in the humanities. Includes full text of articles from nearly 250 journals as far back as 1995. For retrospective searching (1907-1984) use Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective, which indexes nearly 1,200 periodicals as early as 1907.
JSTOR (Journal Storage) (BU-px).: Full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to a few years ago) of scholarly journals, many of them in literature. Includes book reviews.

MLA International Bibliography. 1926 - . (BU-px): International index to journals, series, monographs, working papers, bibliographies and dissertations on modern languages, literature, linguistics and folklore.

Music Index Online. (ChRiv-px)

Project Muse. (ChRiv-px): Full-text articles from many humanities journals. Includes book reviews.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. 1969 - (BU-px): International bibliography of articles, dissertations and more on music and related fields.

ADDITIONAL LINKS.

The Allen Ginsberg Project

BOBDYLAN.COM: Official Bob Dylan web site hosted by Columbia Records.
Mugar Memorial Library Virtual Tour

Music E-Resources (Boston University)

Music Library (Boston University)

WR150 Research Guide

J. Christina Smith (email name: jchris)