MUS505 - Popular Music and Culture

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2. Refine using filters on the left of the result page.

1. Scholarly & peer reviewed, publication date, discipline etc.,​​

​3. Get your sources.

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• How to Use:

  • Click on "Peer Reviewed" on the Search page or the Result page to narrow your results to peer reviewed articles.

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window

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  RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, a comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world. From hip hop to Händel, from ethnomusicology to music therapy, from elementary music education to advanced music theory, RILM provides bibliographic information, fully cited, abstracted, and indexed.
• Canadian Music Periodical Index This link opens in a new window

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  CMPI is an index to Canadian music periodical literature which provides bibliographic sources for information on all aspects of musical activity in Canada. Updated monthly, the database includes entries from Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
• JSTOR This link opens in a new window

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  JSTOR has created a full text digital archive of core scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles. As part of JSTOR’s agreement with publishers, current issues (usually the last 3 – 5 years) are not digitized by JSTOR and may be obtained elsewhere. The Toronto Metropolitan University Library has access to the entire content of JSTOR’s archival journal collections.
• Project MUSE This link opens in a new window

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  Project Muse provides online access to the full text of over 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, mathematics and many others.
  
  Toronto Metropolitan now has access to the following 2022 collections: African Studies, Gender Studies, History, Language and Linguistics, Latin American and Caribbean Studies,  Middle Eastern Studies, Music, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Philosophy and Religion, Political Science and Policy Studies, Public Health and Health Policy, Russian and East European Studies
• ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window

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  ProQuest Research Library provides one-stop access to thousands of full-text periodicals from one of the broadest, most inclusive general reference databases ProQuest has to offer. Search from a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, professional and trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 subjects and topics.
• Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window

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  Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. All titles are cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform allowing researchers easy access to multiple perspectives, resources, and languages on the topic they are researching.

• Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window

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  This database offers access to the full text of several Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.