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Rock's Backpages 2010-2013 Agreement

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Rock's Backpages is an online database of rock music writing, with material dating from the early 1960s to the present day. The library of articles includes reviews, interviews and features, which are fully searchable and presented in full-text. The database also includes Mp3 audio files of original artist interviews, which are available for the first time. There are now twelve thousand articles on the site, featuring over two thousand artists with up to fifty new articles added each week.

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Subject Areas

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Social Sciences

Journalism, media, popular music, and popular culture.

Academic Levels

  • Undergraduate
  • Postgraduate
  • AS/A Level / Scottish Higher National
  • Diploma
  • Vocational

Resource Types

  • databases with full text
  • news media
  • sound recordings
  • magazines

Further information

This resource is updated weekly.

From the early 1960s to the present day.

The library is added to weekly, with between 30 and 50 text articles and, usually, a new audio interview.