Musicology and Ethnomusicology

Do you know which search terms to use to find great articles on your topic?
Experiment with your keywords in one of these broad search options before diving into more specialised search locations.

• Discovery searches across a large number of databases. Use Advanced Search and subject filters for the best results.
• Proquest Central is similar to Discovery, searching across multiple databases
• Google Scholar is a convenient search tool, but you'll need to set up Find it @ Unimelb links to effectively use Google Scholar for library research.

Once you've found a few good resources, explore some subject-specific databases and journals.

Journals are continuous publications issued regularly (daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly), and are the standard for scholarly communication. They can be published in print, microform and electronic formats.

Our collections include many journals relevant to the study of Popular Music.  General musicology and ethnomusicology journals also include articles on Popular Music. Refer to the Key Journals in these tabs above.

The list below is in no way exhaustive, and more can be found by searching in our catalogue, or databases. Other online popular music journals can be found by performing a keyword search for "popular music" in the library catalogue and limiting the search to 'online journals.' 

For comprehensive tips on searching for journal articles, please visit the Research Essentials guide. 

Databases aggregate content from many journal titles, and can be an excellent place to conduct your search. Databases like Google Scholar or Discovery, do not focus on a specific topic, and can return quite broad search results. The discipline specific databases listed below, will be much more likely to return relevant results for the study of Musicology.

The list below is in no way exhaustive, and more can be found by searching in our catalogue, or databases.