Hip Hop Culture

 Music Online: American Song                                                                                                                                The American Song database includes songs by and about Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, European immigrants, and other socio-demographic groups. The database includes songs of the Anti-War Protests, Civil Rights Movement, Union Crusades, and other political movements. Music genres include Blues, African American Music, Folk, Rhythm & Blues, Country, Jazz, Rock, and other popular musical forms.

 Music Online: Contemporary World Music

Contemporary World Music is a global database contains genres such as Reggae, World Beat, World Fusion, Latin, Jazz, Bollywood, Fado, Flamenco, Klezmer, Zydeco, Gospel, Gagaku, and other classical/popular musical forms.

 Music Online: Jazz Music Library Database

The Jazz Music Library Database is one of the most comprehensive databases of streaming Jazz music available. Resource includes information on artists, ensembles, albums, and sub genres, including: Swing, Be-Bop, Latin Jazz, Cool Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Fusion, and Jazz Funk.

 Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is a virtual resource of the world's aural, cultural, and musical traditions. This musical resource provides researchers with digital media sources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. Database content includes materials from the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (A.R.C.E.) in New Delhi.

 DRAM

The Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) is is a music recordings database providing access to emerging genres via independent recording labels.

 International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)

The IIMP database provides to international music periodicals from 1874 to the present. Subject areas include: music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

 Oxford Music Online

Major music reference database providing online access to “Encyclopedia of Popular Music,” “Grove Music Online,” “The Grove Dictionary of American Music,” “The Oxford Companion to Music,” “The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,” “The New Grove Dictionary of Opera” and “The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,” and “The Oxford Dictionary of Music.”

 Pop Culture Universe

Database is a diverse interdisciplinary resource covering; arts and visual culture, business and advertising, ethnic and group culture, fashion and appearance, film, food and drink, literature, music, politics, recreation and leisure, religion and spirituality, sports, television and radio, and technology and media.

 EBSCOhost Databases (Music)

A multi-interdisciplinary suite of databases covering the arts, humanities, law, life and health sciences, social sciences, science and technology. Databases contain popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, documents, books, digital media, and other information items. Open Cluster Searching Select -- Academic Search Premier, MAS Ultra™ School Edition, and MasterFILE Premier,The Music Index, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals.