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The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide to Popular Music. .(Book Review)

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The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide to Popular Music. By Jeff Green. 5th ed. Nashville: Professional Desk References, 2002. [xxi, 1,569 p. ISBN 0-939-73510-5. $79.95 (hbk.); ISBN 0-939- 73520-2. $64.96 (pbk.).] Indexes.

True subject access to music has long been one of the prominent blind spots of the library profession. So much music, particularly popular music, is about something, and yet most library catalogs and reference sources treat music as an abstraction, scrupulously avoiding classification of the emotional or topical content. In our catalogs we assign to music terms that we disingenuously call subject headings, but surely this is an ...

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