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Accessing the Gillespie Scrapbooks:

You can access the Gillespie U.S. State Department Tour scrapbooks via JSTOR by using the links below. If you are off-campus, you will be asked to authenticate through the proxy server. Since these are high-resolution files, downloading them is the easiest way to work with them.

Core Resources for Jazz Studies:

African American Music Reference This link opens in a new window
Text and liner notes of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
User Limit: Unlimited.
Jazz Discography This link opens in a new window
Information about jazz records, bandleaders and recording sessions: leader/group name; album title; musicians, with instruments played; location and date of recording session; tune names, including "matrix" and release numbers.
Access Note: Only available on-campus. Login with VUNetID. Coverage: 1896 to present. User Limit: 2.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music. These may be searched together or individually. Grove Music Online contains the following important music reference sources: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
Vendor Tutorials: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.proxy.library.vanderbilt.edu/subscriber/page/guided_tour
RIPM Jazz Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Cover-to-cover scans of jazz journals and magazines published in the United States.

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Accessing the Gillespie Scrapbooks:

Core Resources for Jazz Studies: