Professor Wilson's Introduction to Hip Hop class, fall, 2013.

1. HIP HOP RESEARCH
AFRS 255
Susan Luévano
Ethnic Studies Librarian

2. Create a thesis statement
Break down your thesis statement by concept
Develop research question(s)
Use
 Boolean operators
 Truncation
Select & use research databases
 Music Index
 RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
 Black Studies Center
 Academic Search Complete
 COAST
Cite research
Can be circular
THE RESEARCH PROCESS

3. Create a research statement
Hip-hop is the most multicultural of
popular musical forms.
Define the questions
– Ask why????
RESEARCH PROCESS

4. Use prompts
Who
What
Where
Why
When
How
HAVING TROUBLE CREATING RESEARCH
QUESTIONS?

5. RESEARCH PROCESS
Identify key concepts
Hip-hop is the most multicultural of popular musical forms.

6. Find articles
where all
concepts
appear.
Hip-hop
Multicultural
Or
Globalization
RESEARCH PROCESS

7. AND narrows a search
 both variables must appear in same citation
 terms are different in meaning
 example: “Hip hop AND Police Brutality”
OR broadens a search
 terms are similar in meaning
 either term may appear in the record
 example: “hip hop OR Rap” “globalization OR multicultural”
BOOLEAN OPERATORS

8. Searches root word to retrieve
variant endings
Music*
Musician
Musicians
Musically
Musicality
TRUNCATION
*

9.  Based on research & written for a discipline
scholars
 Content & research model are reviewed by other
scholars
 In-depth analysis
 Extensive bibliography
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

10. FINDING PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Http://www.csulb.edu/library
 1) OneSearch: Test or preliminary search for journal articles, books & more
 2) Structured Databases by topic/title

11.  Digital front door to library resources
 Does NOT replace structured databases
 Only looks at a selected slice of library holdings
ONESEARCH@ CSULB

12. MUSIC INDEX
Most comprehensive database of music-related articles
Covers all styles and genres of music
International
Scholarly journals
Availability=

13. RILM, ABSTRACT OF MUSIC LITERATURE
Books, journals, conference papers, dissertations, book
chapters, bibliographies, catalogs, media materials, and all forms of scholarly
communication related to music.
Availability =

14. BLACK STUDIES CENTER
 Scholarly essays accompanied by
timelines, images, and film clips.
 Mostly full-text
 Availability=

15. NO DIRECT LINK TO FULL-TEXT

16. NEED FULL-TEXT ARTICLES NOT AVAILABLE:
USE BEACHREACH

17. Boolean Operators
Truncation
SEARCH STRATEGIES
LIMIT - Scholarly
LIMIT – Pub years
LIMIT - Language
SUSAN LUÉVANO, CSULB, UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

18. FINDING BOOKS, MEDIA & GOV DOCS
Http://www.csulb.edu/library
 1) Test or preliminary search for journal articles, books & more
 2) Library Catalog -COAST

19. Set up your Library Password/PIN
SUSAN LUÉVANO, CSULB, UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

20. Lib Answers (Chat Service)
 http://csulb.libanswers.com/
Reference Desk, 1st floor
Susan Luévano
 Email is best!
 Susan.luevano@csulb.edu
 U Library, 4th floor, room 116
 Office hours: Wednesday, 2:00 – 4:30 or by appointment
STILL NEED A LITTLE HELP?