Skip to Main Content

Music

Starting points for research in music

Email this link:

Factual/Contextual Information

Start here to find basic facts and background information:

You might also check these sources out depending on how much you want to explore:

Newspapers can be a great resource to find current information about musical happenings. While they're not considered a scholarly source, they could help you figure out what concerts have occurred or what society is thinking about particular groups. Try the following database to read English-language newspapers from Taiwan:

Analysis and Criticism - Music

Once you have a better idea of history and society, you're prepared to start searching in more research-focused resources. I suggest that you search in:

You might also check out books that we have in UCI Libraries. They can be excellent resources to both learn about background information while also seeing how a scholar engages and analyzes that information. Following are a selection of some that we have available, but you can also search for more in Library Search.

Analysis and Criticism - History/Society