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New Primary Sources Materials on Culture, Literature, and the Arts Now Available
March 8, 2024
The NC State University Libraries now provides access to several primary sources on broad topics of culture, literature, and the arts, including materials such as magazine archives, cookbooks, audio recordings, and zines.
Rolling Stone Archive contains issues from launch in 1967 to the present day. Not only a major touchstone of music and media journalism, Rolling Stone captured and continues to reflect the wider cultural and political lives of young adults, and is available through ProQuest.
From cookbooks to government reports to films, Food and Drink in History explores themes such as food and identity, food and gender, and activism, sourced from across the globe. The bulk of material ranges from the sixteenth century to the early twenty-first century, with a notable exception of rare Apicius cookbooks from as early as the ninth century.
1980’s Culture and Society covers many historical topics of the decade: nuclear threat, AIDs, conservatism, and more. Photographs, zines, and government policy papers highlight the subcultures and activist movements of the decade.
Thousands of audio recordings, interviews, films, and ephemera make up Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings, a collection on the cultural study of music. An addition to audio, a rich image gallery depicts musicians from across the globe, sheet music, and instruments.
These collections are only a few of the newly available resources. See below to access all the new content.
The collections are:
Name | Link |
Rolling Stone Archive | |
Grove Art Online | |
Food & Drink in History | |
J. Walter Thompson: Advertising America | |
Trade Catalogues and the American Home | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/trade-catalogues-and-american-home |
Leisure, Travel & Mass Culture: The History of Tourism | |
Literary Manuscripts, Victorian Manuscripts from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg collection of The New York Public Library | |
Literary manuscripts. 17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds | |
Medieval family life | |
Medieval travel writing | |
Perdita manuscripts | |
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape | |
Shakespeare in performance | |
Travel writing, spectacle and world history | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/travel-writing-spectacle-and-world-history |
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive Collection 5: Video Gaming | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/entertainment-industry-magazine-archive |
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive 3: Film and Television (Part 2) | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/entertainment-industry-magazine-archive |
Socialism on Film, Module I: Wars & Revolutions | |
Socialism on Film, Module II: Newsreels & Magazines | |
Socialism on Film, Module III: Culture and Society | |
Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings | |
1980s Culture and Society | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/1980s-culture-and-society |
Children's Literature and Culture | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/childrens-literature-and-culture |
Broadcasting America: The Rise of Mass Media and Communication | |
Africa Commons: History & Culture | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/africa-commons-history-and-culture |
British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/africa-commons-history-and-culture |
Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/amnesty-international-archives |
Interwar Culture, Module I: The 1920s | |
Interwar Culture, Module II: The 1930s | |
Royal Shakespeare Company Archives: From Playwrights to Performance | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/royal-shakespeare-company-archives |
Victorians on Film. Entertainment, Innovation & Everyday Life | |
Nineteenth Century Literary Society: The John Murray Publishing Archive | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/nineteenth-century-literary-society |
First World War Portal, Module IV: A Global Conflict | |
Shakespeare's Globe Archive: Theatres, Players & Performance | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/databases/shakespeares-globe-archive |
Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks |
Questions about these resources can be sent to Emily Cox, Collections & Research Librarian for Humanities, Social Sciences, & Digital Media. Purchase suggestions can be submitted using our Suggest a Purchase form.