Violence in Popular Music  Tags: violence_in_popular_music sex_in_music ugl_subject_guide ugl  

Articles are a valuable resource in any research paper or project. Articles (as opposed to books) generally possess the following characteristics:

• Shorter length
• Currency of information
• Focus on a specific aspect of a topic 

Popular music
Violence
Aggressiveness
Rap (music)
Rap musicians
Hip-hop
Rock music—social aspects
Music videos

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Check the subject headings/descriptors for individual articles in your searches and repeat your search using these terms. Please note, subject headings are not consistent across databases.

General Interest Databases (cover a variety of subjects/topics)

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Host) - Includes both scholarly and popular sources, updated daily.
• Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) - Includes both scholarly and popular sources, updated daily.

Discipline Specific Databases (focus on a specific discipline or collection of related disciplines)

• SocIndex (Ebsco)Identifies articles in all areas of sociology including anthropology, criminology, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, and urban studies.
• Sociological Abstracts (CSA) - Lots of scholarly journals articles, dissertations, books, and other information covering a wide variety of sociology topics. Useful for many Controversial Issues topics as well.
• Gender Watch (ProQuest) - Articles about gender issues from a wide variety of subject areas.
• Music Index (EBSCO)- Indexes a wide variety of music publications, both scholarly and popular.
• International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)near comprehensive collection of music periodicals from the popular to the scholarly.
• PsycINFO (CSA)- Indexes scholarly Psychology journals and other publications.