Cultural Production and Analysis Theme
This area of study's focus is 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
- Communication & Mass Media CompleteFull text coverage of communication and mass media and related fields.
- Film & Television Literature Index with Full TextFilm and television books, articles, reviews, essays, and more.
- JSTORDigitized back issues of scholarly journals with a rolling date of five years ago. Covers a wide variety of disciplines.
- MLA International Bibliography with Full TextProduced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s. The database contains millions of citations as well as full text for 1,000 journals.
Note: to watch the video on how to search, go to MLA International Bibliography on EBSCO - Project MuseJournals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
More Databases
- Gale Literature Criticism OnlineAn amalgam of ten databases containing literary reviews and essays written throughout all eras of the English language.
- Ebony Magazine ArchiveEbony Magazine Archive covers civil rights, education, entrepreneurship and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes more than 800 issues providing a broad view of African-American culture from its first issue in 1945 through 2014.
- Music IndexMusic Index is a subject-author guide to music literature, reviews and news.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967 to Present only)Music studies indexed by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale, 1985 to present. Limited to 7 simultaneous users.
- 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.