Dance History: Dance Databases

Dance productions, documentaries and instructional videos by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th and 21st centuries. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Search and browse by performer, dance company, technique, genre, choreographer, venue, and more.

Over 150,000 albums delivering contemporary genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, afro-pop, ambient, chant, contemporary Celtic and British folk music, electronic, ska, etc. The Voice of the People from the Topic label, a 20-volume series of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh traditional music, is included in its entirety.

American music recordings by New World Records and other independent labels. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, and electronic music.

Anthropology, Archival Films & Newsreels, Area Studies, Art & Architecture, Biology, Business & Economics, Careers & Job Search, Communication, Criminal Justice & Law, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, English & Language Arts, Environmental Science, Family & Consumer Sciences, Geography, Guidance & Counseling, Health & Medicine, History, Mathematics, Music & Dance, Philosophy & Religion, Physical Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Technical & Trade Education, Technology & Society, and World Languages. Films are closed captioned.

The largest and most comprehensive streaming audio collection of jazz music, featuring thousands of jazz performers from legendary record labels. It currently provides streaming access to more than half a million tracks, with new recordings added monthly. Browse by hundreds of distinct instrument categories, genres and sub-genres, artists and ensembles.

Multidisciplinary video collection. Anthropology, Art, Business & Economics, Foreign Language Films, Gender/Race/Class studies, History (modern and North American), Media Communication, Multicultural studies, Nursing & Health studies, Psychology & Sociology, Sustainability & Environmental studies, plus 319 films from The Criterion Collection. The platform allows you to make playlists and clips, and share the links.

Includes content from several Alexander Street Music listening collections (American Music, Contemporary World Music, Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries) plus the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online and Classical Scores Library Volume II.

Classical music. Access over 98,000 CDs from the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 375 classical, jazz and world music labels.

Online equivalent of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), & The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, (2002). Includes access to the Oxford Companion to Music, the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

Multi-subject resources from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities & other scholarly organizations. More about Google Scholar at Google Scholar Guide