Research Guides: MUS111: Historical Survey of Western Music: Journal Resources

Journal Resources

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Citation information and abstracts to research about music on various musical genres from around the world.
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary full text database that allows you to search for articles from scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It also gives you access to a major collection of ebooks, primary sources, and images.

Other Great Journal Databases

Canadian Music Periodical Index (CMPI)
The Canadian Music Periodical Index (CMPI) is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. You can use this resource to focus your searches, and then look for full texts of the articles at U of T.

The CMPI database includes over 37,000 entries on articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day. Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines are represented here, almost 200 of which are currently active and continue to be indexed. Since 1999, significant articles published in Canadian periodicals about international music and musicians have been added to the index.
Music Periodicals Database
Citation information, including abstracts, of key music journals and magazine articles, with additional full-text coverage for select titles.

Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone Archive provides a backfile of Rolling Stone magazine from 1967 up to present. The magazine became a vehicle for rock and popular music journalism and expanded to broader entertainment topics, such as film and television, and wider popular culture.