BIS 313 - Bigger than Hip Hop

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Finding Articles & more
Starting Points:
  • Expanded Academic Index - UW Restricted
    Scholarly and general interest sources in humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
  • ProQuest Databases - UW Restricted
    Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers.

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Digging Deeper:

  • African Studies Abstracts Online
  • African Women's Bibliographic Database
  • America: History & Life - UW Restricted
    Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index - UW Restricted
    Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. Indexes world's leading arts and humanities journals with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals
  • Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature
  • Black Studies Center - UW Restricted
    Contains essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African-Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable component databases
  • Ethnic Newswatch - UW Restricted
    Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America
  • Historical Abstracts - UW Restricted
    Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present
  • JSTOR Search - UW Restricted
    A subject searchable index of journals online with JSTOR. Retrieves full-text backfiles of scholarly journals, some of which date back to the 1800's.
  • Lexis-Nexis Academic - UW Restricted
    from main menu choose News --> World News --> Middle East/Africa Sources
    Extensive array of full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters), business literature, industry and company information, legal, biographical, and reference resources.

  • Social Sciences Citation Index - UW Restricted
    Multidisciplinary database with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences
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How do I get the article if it's not in full text online?

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Reference sources - dictionaries, encyclopedias, etc.

Online Reference Sources:

How do I use UW Restricted resources from off campus?

Print Reference Sources (1st floor of the Library):

  • Encyclopedia of African History and Culture - DT3 .P27 2001
  • Africana : the Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience -
    DT14 .A37435 2005
  • Encyclopedia of American Studies - E169.1 .E625 2001
  • Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture - E169.1 G7555 2002
  • St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture - E169.1 S764 2000
  • Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture - E169.12 E49 2001
  • African American Encyclopedia - E185 .A253 1993
  • Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History - E185 .E54 1996
  • Black Women in America - E185.86 .B542 2005
  • Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures & Daily Life - GN333 .W67 1998
  • African Folklore: An Encyclopedia - GR350 .A33 2004
  • Encyclopedia of World Cultures - GN550 .E53 1991
  • The Encyclopedia of Popular Music - ML102 .P66 G84 1998
  • The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music - ML100 .G16 1998
  • Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture - ML102 .R27 B96 2006
Internet resources

Hip Hop in the United States:

Local Resources:

Hip Hop in Africa:


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