Enjoy free trial access this March to Rock's Backpages - the world's biggest archive of music journalism and pop writing of the last 70 years, full of scans of primary historical sources - scans of real documents, interviews, magazine articles and more throughout modern music history, audio files of interviews with rock and pop stars, their agents and producers, and full text articles dicsussing the musical world, its artists, and its development.
This constantly expanding archive comprises of more than 57,000 articles, works by over 860 of the finest writers across all popular-music genres from rockabilly to hip hop, via R&B, country and electronica/EDM. The RBP library also includes over 900 exclusive audio interviews with music legends from Jimi Hendrix to Kate Bush, via Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Michael Jackson and Kurt Cobain, and almost 8,000 artists, from Elvis Presley to Beyoncé, across more than 1,200 publications from across the globe.
Rock's Backpages are invaluable to students and enthusiasts not only of popular music but of journalism, social history, cultural studies, American studies, history and media studies. Rock's Backpages is also increasingly popular with musical enthusiasts who just want to know more about rock legends and their favourite musical artists.
Not only, but also...
Rock's Backpages includes:
- over 57,000 articles (reviews, interviews, features and more) from a wide range of publications in the US and UK from Creem and Trouser Press to Rolling Stone and the New Musical Express. Covering the early 1960s to the present day and featuring over seven thousand artists ranging from 500-word album (or concert) reviews to 10,000-word interviews and features. At least 50 text articles and one exclusive audio interview are added to the archive each week
- coverage of all types of popular music from the 1950s to the present: from rockabilly to hip hop, Country to EDM and from Elvis Presley to Amy Winehouse
- constant updates, with at least 50 new articles and a new audio interview added every week, and regular updates telling you what's new
Carry on rockin'
Should we ditch this or stay the course?
Like what you're seeing and hearing? Let us know and we might subscribe permanently so you have continued access. Email Greta Friggens (Faculty Librarian, CCI) and tell her how much you love (or hate) this unique digital archive. And whatever you do, rock on!