MUSC 3190 Organizing Your Research

Simple Tips For Staying Organized

Keeping track of all your research can be difficult. Here's a few tips to help you stay on top of things:

 Sheppard 2019
Lancefield 2005
Tsou 2014
Tsou 1997
Book that explores representations of Japan "in the American musical imagination." Chapter 2 talks about Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado.
Dissertation about how Asian cultural and gender stereotypes appeared in American music between 1900-1930. Discusses the terms "yellowface" and "yellowvoice," which would be helpful for me to include in the section of my paper about white singers portraying non-white characters.
Book chapter (from this book) that analyzes the character's melodies in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The author argues that differences in tonality are used to represent racial differences. I hadn't thought of this element before -- that racism in opera is more than just the costumes and stories.
Journal article that talks about stereotypes of Chinese Americans in sheet music in the early 1900s. I have two articles by Tsou now -- I should look into her more since it seems like she might be an expert in this area.

Zotero

Zotero is a free tool that helps you collect, organize, and cite your research sources. Zotero works with library databases, Google Scholar, and websites to make it easy for you to add and cite items to your Zotero library with a single click. You can then easily annotate the sources, create bibliographies for different projects, and add citations in Microsoft Word.

While it's not required, Zotero can help you keep your research organized for this class and for others.

This video gives you a quick glimpse of how Zotero is useful when organizing your research.



This research guide will show you how to get started with Zotero and make use of all of its features.

If you're working in a team, you can share citations in Zotero. Contact your librarian if you run into trouble with this.