Popular Music & Jazz: A Guide to Research and Resources: Genres & Repertoire

Commercial site, but a good source for the lyrics of popular songs.

"For original song lyrics by the Grateful Dead, find literary, historical, biographical references; also literary apparatus such as concordance, motif and theme index, bibliography, discographies, thematic essays on the topic."

Covering issues of historiography and practice as well as the ways in which the genre interacts with media and social concerns such as class, gender, and sexuality.

Updated edition of an essential guide to important jazz compositions, telling the story of more than 250 key jazz songs and providing a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings, also outlining the standards' history and performance by different generations of jazz artists.