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Core Music Journals

The following selected core journals are devoted exclusively to some aspect of music. Please note, however, that many other journals not listed here will contain articles about music; thus, the need to consult a periodical database or index.
 
Provides articles, reviews and regular columns that inform, educate and challenge music teachers and foster excellence in the music teaching profession.
 
Billboard (1988+)
A leading music industry research and information source, reporting on entertainment trends, technological developments, legal concerns, marketing, and performing artists. The famous Billboard charts (also available online at http://www.billboard.com) list best-selling titles in a variety of categories, including jazz, country, Latin, and rock.
 
Early Music (1993+)
Covers Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and early classical music history and performance practice. Includes reviews of books, music, and recordings.
 
Articles of interest to musicians, cultural anthropologists, folklorists, and popular culture scholars. Each issue contains reviews of books, recordings, films, and videos.
 
Fanfare (1977+)
https://fanfarearchive.com
An American bi-monthly magazine devoted to reviewing recorded music. It mainly covers classical music, but it also features a jazz column in each issue. It does not cover equipment reviews or pop/rock music. Access is by individual subscription only; UCF does not subscribe to this magazine.
 
Publishes scholarly articles on both contemporary and historical music theory and composition and covering all time periods.
 
Publishes authoritative articles on current music therapy research and theory, including book reviews and guest editorials.
 
A peer-reviewed journal that publishes academic essays on all aspects of popular or mass culture. The Journal is the official publication of the Popular Culture Association.
 
The oldest journal of research in music education, with articles on historical, philosophical, and experimental educational research in the field.
 
Renowned for its well-documented, refereed articles that focus primarily on western art music, but it also occasionally covers topics related to ethnomusicology, gender studies, and popular music. Articles present scholarship in virtually all fields of historical musicology, including but not limited to historiography, aesthetics, organology, iconography, and performance practice, theory, and criticism. Includes book reviews.
 
The leading British journal of musical scholarship. Coverage embraces all fields of musical enquiry, from the earliest times to the present day, and its authorship is international.
 
The oldest general music journal in America. Over the years it has published the writings of many important composers and musicologists, including Aaron Copland, Arnold Schoenberg, and Marc Blitzstein. Regular sections include "American Musics," "Music and Culture," "The Twentieth Century," and an "Institutions, Industries, Technologies" section which examines music and the ways it is created and consumed. Also publishes review essays on a wide variety of significant new music performances and recordings.
 
Articles on historical musicology, analysis, criticism and interdisciplinary studies. Also has reviews of books and selected recorded and live performances.
 
Each issue offers critical reviews of significant books and printed music, as well as columns providing complete bibliographic citations for new books, music, and music publishers' catalogs.
 
Focuses on contemporary classical music and its creators. Often includes interviews with musical scholars and composers.
 
"A peer-reviewed scholarly journal of broad interdisciplinary scope, accepting historical, theoretical, critical, sociological, and cultural perspectives on a similarly broad range of popular music in scholarly articles and in relevant book, audio, and media reviews. Academic contributors offer original and authoritative views on music as it interfaces with culture at large. Special-topic issues are presented (typically every other release), with recent and upcoming issues addressing such topics as New Orleans music legacy and survival, record charts, music as torture, krautrock, popular music in the post-Soviet space, and Bob Dylan" (publisher's description).
 
The official journal of the Society for Research in Psychology of Music and Music Education. Articles include research related to listening, performing, and memorizing music.
 
Rolling Stone
Main Library Microfilm AP 2 .R644 (1967-1987)
Main Library Microfiche AP 2 .R644 (1988+)
The primary source for the latest news about American popular culture, music, celebrities, and politics. Contains many popular music reviews.
 
Stereo Review
Online versions (1984-1999)
Main Library Microfiche ML 1 .S74 (1985-2000)
Main Library ARC General Collection ML 1 .S74 (1968-1984)
Features reviews of classical, jazz, popular, and folk music, as well as articles and reviews covering all aspects of sound equipment.
 
"A peer-reviewed online-only journal which brings research in music teaching and learning close to everyday practice to help teachers apply research in their music classrooms and rehearsal halls. The journal presents reviews of the literature and findings of individual studies without research terminology or jargon" (publisher's description).

Journal Locations

The vast majority of the UCF Libraries' journals are available full-text online. Sometimes, however, the complete run of back issues of journals will not be online, but nonetheless may be available in the Libraries. The location in the Main Library of the following formats of back issues, as well the current issues of some journal titles, are indicated below:

> Bound Volumes: shelved by call number in General Collection or in ARC General Collection.

> Microfilm/Microfiche Volumes: shelved in cabinets by call number on 1st Floor.

> Current Issues: shelved by title on 3d Floor.

Scholarly or "Peer-Reviewed" Articles

Many journal databases have the capability to limit searches so that only scholarly or "peer-reviewed" articles are in the results list. Many instructors specify that only these types of articles (as opposed to articles that appear in popular magazines) may be used in students' papers and presentations. Scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles have the following characteristics:

> Reviewed by a panel of experts before they are accepted for publication

> Written by a scholar or specialist in the field

> Contain footnotes and/or references

> Frequently contain diagrams and charts but few glossy pictures

> Report on original research or experimentation

> Published by professional associations

> Employ terminology associated with the discipline

Journal Directories

DOAJ contains a list of approximately 1,300 journals that are freely available on the Internet. It aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
 
A unique and comprehensive tool providing bibliometric analysis of more than 5,900 journals in the areas of science and technology and of 1,700 journals in the social sciences and humanities, including music. Coverage is international and includes journals published by over 3,300 publishers in 60 countries. The aim of the JCR is to provide a systematic and objective means of determining the relative importance of science and social sciences journals within their subject categories.
 
Magazines for Libraries, 15th ed.
Main Library Reference PN 4832 .K32
Annotates and evaluates over 6,500 periodicals. Arrangement by subject with title and subject indexes.
 
https://www.scimagojr.com
A publicly-available portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus® database. Journals can be grouped by subject area (27 thematic areas) and by subject category (313 specific subject categories; e.g., history, music, philosophy).
 
A comprehensive directory of  journals, listing periodicals from many countries, arranged by category or subject focus. Entries usually include title, subtitle, sponsoring organization or publisher, editorial emphasis, date of origin, frequency, price, circulation, editors, place of publication, and where the title is indexed or abstracted.