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Videos in a broad range of subject areas from over 1,500 leading distributors, producers, and filmmakers.
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Black Thought and Culture
Non-fiction writing by leading figures in African American life and culture, including Frederick Douglas, W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Wells, A. Phillip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, and hundreds of others.
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Classical Scores Library
*Best Bet for SubjectDigitized scores encompassing all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century.
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Daniels' Orchestral Music Online
Index of over 13,000 works from the orchestral repertoire by more than 2,000 composers.
About Daniels' Orchestral Music OnlineDatabase of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
CD-quality audio, complete liner notes, and essays for digitized albums of American music. Includes the full catalog of the New World Records and Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) labels.
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Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Digitized trade and popular publications covering music, theatre, film, television, video games, and more dating from the 19th - 21st centuries.
About Entertainment Industry Magazine ArchiveEthnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
Digitized field recordings and accompanying materials from around the world.
About Ethnomusicology: Global Field RecordingsEVIA Digital Archive: Ethnographic Video for Instruction & Analysis
Digital archive of ethnographic field videos.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Comprehensive online encyclopedia devoted to the study of music from around the world.
About Garland Encyclopedia of World MusicGrove Music Online
*Best Bet for SubjectCollection of music reference works, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Index to Printed Music
Resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions.
About Index to Printed MusicIPA Source
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcriptions and literal translations of art songs and arias originally in Latin, French, Italian, German, and Spanish.
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The Jazz Discography
The most comprehensive general jazz discography. Includes information on over 200,000 jazz recording sessions from 1896 to the present.
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*Best Bet for SubjectJournals, books, and primary sources in a wide variety of subject areas in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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Met Opera On Demand: Student Access
*Best Bet for SubjectAccess full-length Metropolitan Opera performances, including videos from the Met’s Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, telecasts from the 1970s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, and radio broadcasts dating back to 1935.
About Met Opera On Demand: Student AccessMusic & Performing Arts Collection (ProQuest)
Journals in music, dance, theatre, film, and a wide range of performing arts disciplines.
About Music & Performing Arts Collection (ProQuest)Music Index
Research on music, musicians, and the music industry.
About Music IndexMusic Online: Listening Collection
Music Online: Listening Collection contains over 10 million streaming audio tracks in a
About Music Online: Listening CollectionMusic Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century
Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century is a collection of digitized histori
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Naxos Music Library
Digital library of over 75,000 classical music recordings from the Naxos catalog and selected additional labels.
About Naxos Music LibraryThe New York Times
Full access to NYTimes.com, including all articles published from 1851 to the present. First-time users, please select “Create Account” to create an NYTimes.com personal account.
About The New York TimesNew York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Digitized collection of every issue of the New York Times from 1851 to 3 years ago.
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Opera in Video
Video library of opera performances covering the most commonly studied works.
About Opera in VideoOxford Music Online
*Best Bet for SubjectCollection of music reference works, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Project Muse
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
About Project MuseProQuest Digital Collections
Digitized primary and secondary sources from a wide variety of subject areas organized into many subcollections.
About ProQuest Digital CollectionsProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times
Digitized collection of every issue of the New York Times from 1851 to 3 years ago.
About ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York TimesProQuest One Entertainment & Popular Culture
Digitized primary and secondary sources in the areas of music, film, television, gaming, comics, and childhood and youth culture.
About ProQuest One Entertainment & Popular CultureProQuest One Performing Arts (Alexander Street)
Dance, music, and theatre multimedia collection, including scripts, scores, historical periodicals, and video performances, interviews, documentaries, and studio lessons.
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Qwest TV EDU
Qwest TV EDU is a collection of streaming videos of live performances of jazz, funk, sou
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
*Best Bet for SubjectComprehensive international index of scholarship on classical, traditional, and popular music, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, instruments, voice, and dance.
About RILM Abstracts of Music LiteratureRIPM Jazz Periodicals
Digitized historical American jazz periodicals.
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Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive
Digitized backfiles of pre-teen and teen magazines from the U.K., U.S., and Canada.
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