MSU 505 Guide
Sounds Like Toronto
A History of the music scene in Toronto, (including articles, videos and music).
Getting Research Help
Book an Appointment
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Visit the Research Help Desk on the main floor of the Library for help.
Attend a Workshop
Workshops are scheduled throughout the term.
Online Guides and Videos
How-to guides and videos on writing, research and citation
Online Databases
Music Encyclopedias
- Bloomsbury Popular Music This link opens in a new windowBloomsbury Popular Music digital library for global popular music brings together leading scholarship and interactive tools to hit the right note for research and learning. It is an ideal resource for students and academics across disciplines including music, ethnomusicology, the performing arts, media and communication, cultural studies, anthropology and sociology.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowWith over 60,000 articles written by over 6,000 music scholars, Grove Music Online (GMO) is the authoritative resource for music research with an ongoing mission to chart the diverse history and cultures of music and musicians from around the globe.
Scholarly Peer Reviewed Articles
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowRILM 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 windowCMPI 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 windowJSTOR 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 windowProject 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 windowProQuest 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.
Newspapers and Magazines:
- Global Newsstream This link opens in a new windowGlobal 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 windowThis 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.
Streaming Databases (Documentaries, Performances and Movies):
- Qwest TV This link opens in a new windowStreaming video service created by Quincy Jones. It features documentaries, concerts, archives and other content as they relate to “jazz and beyond.”
Co-founded by music legend Quincy Jones and jazz impresario and producer Reza Ackbaraly, Qwest TV features a diverse collection of hundreds of concerts and documentaries, with a focus on Jazz, Soul, Funk, Blues, African music, Latin music, Indian music and more.
*Please click on the Access hotlink to link to the site. This resource should then open in a new tab. Please note that if your browser uses pop-up or ad blockers you may get prompted to access the resource in a new tab. - Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new windowKanopy is a streaming service that provides the platform to a host of educational video productions covering a wide range of subjects, from arts, humanities, health, business, education and more. The collection has over 800 video titles from various producers. Toronto Metropolitan also has access to the Kanopy Criterion Collection.
The majority of the videos are closed captioned and clip-making is allowed. - Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new windowThe Naxos Video Library brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.
An online search engine, allows users to search by composer, production, artist, venue, role or genre.
Find articles using Search Everything
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Discovery search box (like Google for Libraries). Searches across our collections of article databases, books, and ebooks etc.,
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Use to find: books, ebooks, scholarly articles, newspaper, magazines.
Directions:
1. Search using keywords (or the title/author if you know it)
2. Refine using filters on the left of the result page.
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Content type (book, journal article, newspaper etc.,)
- Scholarly & peer reviewed, publication date, discipline etc.,
3. Get your sources.
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Online Items Only link is for articles and ebooks
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Link will bring you to another page with the full text of the article or ebook.
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Books - Status and Location (call number)
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Status will be either Available or Due (plus the date it is due back)
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Save or Cite your results using the icons on the right side of your source.
Google Scholar for Music Articles
1. Google Scholar searches articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.*
* The majority of sources will be behind pay-walls and you will not be able to access them.
2. You can optimize Google Scholar to search TMU's collection which you are allowed to access*
* If you are off campus, you will be asked to log-in with your TMU ID.