Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Melody in popular music: analysis Development and Harmonization in Jazz, Pop, Rock by 
Analysing Popular Music by 
Taking Popular Music Seriously by
A collection of nineteen essays by Frith, a sociologist whose writings on popular music have made a major impact on the field.
Popular Music : The key concepts by
"First published, as Key Concepts in Popular Music, 1998"
Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture by
Original essays by leading scholars in the field of popular music studies which describe the history of continuities and conflicts in a term's meaning, situating the writer's own position on the term in that history of debate.
Journal of Popular Music Studies
Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
Popular Music
published by Cambridge University Press.
Online availability for 1981- with a moving wall of 5 years.
Popular Musicology Online
Refereed academic journal with an international advisory panel of leading popular musicologists. Under continuous editorship since its original hardcopy founding in 1991 (as Popular Musicology Quarterly), PMO has been an innovative voice in the development of critical approaches to the field.
Online availability from the Library's homepage under "Databases" noted in parentheses
Popular Music History ML 5 .P665 (in Academic Search Premier, 2004 to the present, with a 3 month delay)
Rolling Stone ML 1 .R65 (in Pro-Quest, 1994 to present with a 6 month delay)
Sing Out! ML 1.S56 (in Pro-Quest; 1996-2009; abstracts for other years)
Down Beat ML 1 .D72 (Indexed in Academic Search Premier)