MUS210: Music in Film

This guide supports the research components of MUS210: Music in Film.

Journal/Database Resources

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR includes scholarship published in more than 2000 high quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Known as the most comprehensive, music-specific database, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature features a wealth of content from the early 1800s through the present with some content coverage extending back as far as the late 18th century.
Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
The MPD (formerly known as the International Index to Music Periodicals) overlaps with RILM, but also includes some unique journal titles in overlapping disciplines. No thorough search for information on your topic is complete without searching this database.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Performing Arts Periodicals Database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more. Includes scholarly and popular performing arts journals.
Cinema and Media Studies - Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
A database of citations for articles that specifically cover topics in cinema and media studies. You can use this resource to do preliminary research on potential sources, and then look for full texts of the articles at U of T.
Canadian Music Periodical Index (CMPI) This link opens in a new window
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 Index This link opens in a new window
Citation information including abstracts of scholarly journals related to the study of classical and popular music.
Classical Music in Video This link opens in a new window
Available through Alexander Street, explore the largest, most diverse, and comprehensive catalog of online music content in the world.
Film Platform Collection This link opens in a new window
A global selection of films includes many Oscar nominated documentaries and film festival winners.

Social, Political, and Cultural Databases

The UTL has some fantastic databases for finding information on the political, social, and cultural contexts of the music you're studying. These contexts often play a role in shaping the kinds of musics that are produced during a particular historical time period. Here's a short list for you to check out, listed in alphabetical order:

Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part I This link opens in a new window
The archive includes newsletters, newspapers, and periodicals by, for and about gays and lesbians; reports; policy statements; and other materials tracing LGBTQ activism throughout the second half of the twentieth century.
Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples of North America This link opens in a new window
Covers Native North American culture, history, and life. It contains eBooks, essays, journal, magazine and news articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.
Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
Website of both historical and current information for research on African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself.
Cold War: a student encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Entries cover all facets of the Cold War from its origins to its aftermath, including political, diplomatic, military, social, and economic topics, as well as the lives of everyday citizens caught up in the conflict in countries around the world.
Empire Online This link opens in a new window
Electronic reproduction of material relating to the European colonial period. Empire online is an extensive, interactive digital resource enabling researchers to explore colonial history, politics, religion, culture and society. Material in the collection spans five centuries, charting the rise and fall of colonial empires from the explorations of Columbus and Captain Cook, the missionary movement and the exhibitions of the 19th century, to decolonisation in the second half of the 20th century and debates over American imperialism. A broad selection of letter books, periodicals, travel writings and more have been selected from leading archives around the world, including the British Library, providing valuable insight into the key events and themes of the European colonial period.
First Nations Information Connection This link opens in a new window
An initiative of the University of Alberta Libraries in collaboration with First Nations institutions. Provides access to a collection of culturally significant web resources. Most resources are also accessible to the general public.
Indigenous Peoples: North America This link opens in a new window
This database allows users to trace the history of Native Peoples in North America from colonial relations in the 1600s to twentieth-century issues such as civil rights. Includes manuscript collections, rare books and monographs, newspapers, periodicals, census records, legal documents, maps, drawings and sketches, oral histories, photos, and some video.
Indigenous Studies Portal This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles, ebooks, theses, and government publications, with a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada and a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.
Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War This link opens in a new window
This database includes documents from four key 20th-century conflicts, with a spotlight on the Second World War. Documents are primarily British secret intelligence.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa This link opens in a new window
The liberation of Southern Africa and the dismantling of the Apartheid regime was one of the major political developments of the 20th century, with far-reaching consequences for people throughout Africa and around the globe. This collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online This link opens in a new window
This archive includes a broad range of previously classified federal records from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries including policy papers, diplomatic correspondence, cabinet meeting minutes, briefing materials, and domestic surveillance and military reports.
Women's Studies Archive This link opens in a new window
The Women's Studies Archive analyzes history from the female perspective. Covering the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this archive presents materials on the roles, experiences, and achievements of women in society.
Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1820 This link opens in a new window
Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires since 1820 explores prominent themes in world history since 1820: conquest, colonization, settlement, resistance, and post-coloniality, as told through women’s voices. With a clear focus on bringing the voices of the colonized to the forefront, this highly-curated archive and database includes documents related to the Habsburg Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the British, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and United States Empires, and settler societies in the United States, New Zealand and Australia.

Film & Music Journals

The New Soundtrack
The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images. It showcases discourse on how aural elements combine with moving images.
The Soundtrack
The Soundtrack is a multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that brings together research in the area of music and sound in relation to film and other moving image media.
Music, Sound, and the Moving Image
Music, Sound, and the Moving Image is the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound in moving image media.
Music and the moving image
Music and the Moving Image explores the relationship between music and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, music videos, computer games, performance art, and web-based media) through articles, reviews and interviews.
Film History : An International Journal
Film History focuses on the historical development of the motion picture and the social, technological, and economic context in which this has occurred. Its areas of interest range from the technical and entrepreneurial innovations of the early and pre-cinema experiments, through all aspects of the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of commercial and non-commercial motion pictures.

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