Research Guides: United States History Research Guide: MUS370: Music in Atlanta

Secondary Sources

Scholarly Articles
Find articles by scholars on events and places related to your American history.
Encyclopedias
To find print and digital encyclopedias in our collection try searching for Atlanta and the word encyclopedia in Articles +. You can also find many state encyclopedias online like the New Georgia Encyclopedia below.
New Georgia Encyclopedia
Oxford Music Online
Music encyclopedia, offering coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.

Encyclopedia of Local History
Includes everyday issues, theoretical approaches, and trends in the field.
Atlanta and Its Environs
An exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement through the 1970s.
Atlanta History
Popular magazine covering many issues related to Atlanta history.
Atlanta Historical Bulletin
Print-only publication dedicated to the history of the city.
History Press Titles re: Atlanta
Explore these local history titles about Atlanta. Many have information on the music landscape.
Atlanta Studies Journal
Online publication from the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
Access resources for scholarly music research. Includes a continuously-updated bibliography of music literature with broad international coverage.
Music Periodicals Database (formerly IIMP)
Provides indexing and abstracts for many international music periodicals from a variety of countries. Some of the indexed journals are available in full-text.
RIPM Jazz
105 full-text, searchable jazz periodicals published in the United States between 1914–2000.
JSTOR
Access a wide variety of journal articles in the humanities and other disciplines.
Note: You may not be able to access the most current 2–7 years of certain journals—but many of these recent publications are found in Project MUSE.

Check out the "How do I find Newspapers Guide" for a more complete overview of finding digital and print newspapers from the past.

Guide to Atlanta Newspapers
Want to search individual Atlanta newspapers? Check out the links on this guide.

Newspapers.com
Contains local and regional historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, Australia and other select countries.
NewspaperArchive
Provides current information and daily feeds from a wide variety of U.S. and international newspapers.
NewsBank Access World News
Coverage includes domestic newspapers, international newspapers, news wires, transcripts, and broadcasts, including 16 Georgia newspapers.
All titles are the full electronic version of record.

Want to find birth certificates, military records, yearbook photos and more? Try searching our genealogy databases.

Planning Atlanta: A New City in the Making, 1930s – 1990s (A large collection of city planning maps)
A collection of historical Atlanta city planning maps primarily from the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Regional Commission. All maps have been georeferenced and can be viewed in Google Maps and Google Earth. Also, users can download GeoTIFF files and JPEG images of the maps.
Aerial Photographs of Atlanta, Georgia, 1949
Aerial Survey of Atlanta, Georgia, 1949 contains scanned images of 124 aerial photographs (43 x 80 cm, scale 1"= 200').
MARBL Historic Map Collection
A collection of digitized historical maps of Atlanta and Georgia from Emory Libraries.
Georgia's Virtual Vault
County, plat and other maps from the Georgia Archives.
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1884-1922 (Public Access)
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922 consists of 4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133 municipalities.
Digital Library of Georgia - Maps

The information on this page is sourced from Georgia State's Metropolitan Atlanta: Find Maps and Data.

Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America is a portal to primary sources including many from Atlanta.

Atlanta City Directories
Would you like to know more about the businesses and residences on the street that you're researching? Check out the Atlanta City Directories via the Digital Library of Georgia.