Popular music

Specialists

Ray Heigemeir

Public Services Librarian for Music

(650) 384-9985

raymondh@stanford.edu

Music

Music history

Music theory

Jazz

Instrumental music

Composers

Ethnomusicology

Musical instruments

Musical theater

Voice

Popular music

Opera

Blogs

Kevin Kishimoto wins publication award | February 7, 2018

Tune in, turn on, and... | January 31, 2017

Introducing the Bear Family Records collection | December 6, 2016

New collections available at the Archive of Recorded Sound | April 28, 2014

Remembering Kurt Cobain | April 9, 2014

Topic guides

Course guides

PWR 1KC

PWR 1KC The Rhetoric of Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture

Notable collections

Lucie King Harris Collection

Lucie King Harris was an arts patron, a philanthropist, and an ardent horsewoman. The Lucie King Harris Books for Music Fund was the first endowed fund in Music at Stanford University. This collection of piano/vocal and solo piano music belonging to Lucie King Harris.
William R. and Louise Fielder Sheet Music Collection

2,532 individual pieces of sheet music, sheet music lithographs, and music related broadsides from the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Caricatures of Black Americans : sheet music, 1861-1947

White perceptions of African American as portrayed in the cover illustrations of sheet music.
African-American related sheet music, and sheet music written by African Americans, 1851-1974

Sheet music depicting African Americans, or written by African American composers.
Fernando Fernández music collection

Includes popular sheet music, often either in manuscript or with annotations.