Research Guides: Musical Theatre Resources: Articles & Periodicals

Selected Periodicals

The Music Library subscribes to periodicals and journals in both print and online formats. Each journal below is linked directly to its record in the Library Catalog— click to see which volumes are available. If the Library Catalog states that a title is available online, click Show All Online Resources to see what issues are available through which electronic resource.

Below are some journals related to musical theatre that you can access at/through the Music Library.

American Music
Call Number: ML 1 .A5028
American Theatre
Call Number: PN 2000 .A51
Playbill
Call Number: PN 2000 .P64
Popular Music and Society
Call Number: ML 1 .P83
Show Music
Call Number: ML 1699 .S561
Sondheim Review
Call Number: ML 410 .S6872 S6
Studies in Musical Theatre
(Available online only.)

Selected Online Resources For Articles

Below are some of the main electronic resources that will assist you in locating periodical and journal articles related to musical theatre. To explore other electronic resources available, you can browse all online databases and online journals by subject or see an overview of library resources related to music.

Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 260 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals. The database currently includes half a million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of each journal. It also retrospectively indexes 63 periodical titles as far back as 1864. IIPA covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, circus performance, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, performance art, film, television and more.
International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text This link opens in a new window
contains more than 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts. It has more than 500 full-text titles, including more than 170 full-text journals and more than 360 full-text books & monographs.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Available through Web of Science, allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work, as well as searching by subject, author, journal, and author address. Indexes 1,600 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive This link opens in a new window
Complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines, from their inception to 2000. Each magazine can be browsed cover-to-cover in full-page, full-text format. Users are able to search for original reviews, interviews, industry news, listings, charts and features relating to the full range of popular media using advanced search and retrieval functionality.

Music Periodicals Database
Indexes over 425 scholarly and popular music periodicals from more than 20 countries with full text for recent articles from 140 of these periodicals.
Access: Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).

MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
A subject index for books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and film by the Modern Language Association (MLA), an organization dedicated to the study and teaching of language and literature. The electronic version of the Bibliography dates back to 1925 and contains over 2 million citations from more than 4,400 periodicals (including peer-reviewed e-journals) and 1,000 book publishers.

Music Index
Comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature. The Music Index online coverage spans from 1970 to the present and contains surveyed data from over 700 international music periodicals from over 40 countries.
Access: Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Access: Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).
RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals)
International annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in 140 music periodicals published in 20 countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. Treating primary source material, RIPM indexes the content of complete runs of journals, including articles, reviews, news columns, miscellaneous items, surveys of the press, bibliographies, iconography and advertising.
Access: Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).

Humanities and Social Sciences Index (with Abstracts and Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing of over 1,500 periodicals across all humanities and social sciences fields. Full text is included for many articles since 1994.
Humanities Abstracts (with Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts articles from almost 700 humanities publications. Covers periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Abstracts feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction (including dramas and poems), and reviews of plays and television and radio programs.
Film Indexes Online This link opens in a new window
Combined access to the American Film Institute (AFI) Catalog, Film Index International (FII), and the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals databases.

Project MUSE
Provides full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.
Access: Limited to authorized UM users (through validated sign-on).