Cultural Production and Analysis Theme
These courses focus on the centrality of cultural production and mass media to understanding African and African American communities; considers formal cultural practices such as literature, music and visual arts, and vernacular cultures including style and speech.
Journal Databases
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JSTORDigitized back issues of scholarly journals with a rolling date of five years ago. Covers a wide variety of disciplines. A portion of this resource was acquired with funding from the Library/IT Assessment.
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Project MUSEJournals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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Film and Television Literature IndexFilm and television books, articles, reviews, essays, and more.
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Communication and Mass Media CompleteFull text coverage of communication and mass media and related fields.
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MLA International BibliographyDatabase for international languages, literature, linguistics, media studies and more.
More Databases
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Gale Literature Criticism OnlineThis is an amalgam of ten databases in which you will find literary reviews and essays written throughout all eras of the English language. This database may not be compatible with Mozilla Firefox.
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Music IndexMusic Index is a subject-author guide to music literature, reviews and news.
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Rock's BackpagesOver 24,000 classic articles on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, on all genres from rockabilly to hip hop, by the finest music writers of the last 50 years.
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Humanities AbstractsAbstracts covering diverse subject areas of the humanities. Find articles, reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, and original works of fiction. Access limited to 8 simultaneous users.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967 to Present)Music studies indexed by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 1985 to present. Limited to 7 simultaneous users.