LibGuides: Dance History: Dance Databases

About Databases....

General Databases

See also the entire Theater & Performing Arts database and Newspaper databases, for more search options.

Dance Education Literature and Research Descriptive Index
Dance education, Dates vary, 1926 to the present.
Humanities Source
Area studies, theology, religion, performing arts, literary & political criticism, language & literature, music, philosophy, history, and classical studies, area studies, art, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, and journalism. Indexing from 1907, full text from 1942-present.
JSTOR
Multi-Subject. -- Access begins with the first volume for many journal titles, but usually does not have the newest volumes of each journal.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.

Literature Review Databases

These databases are useful for literature reviews and locating different sources.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, folklore, history, language, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, radio, television, film, religion, and theater.
Coverage: 1975 to present
Dissertations & Theses Global
Multi-subject. World's largest collection of full text theses and dissertations. Contains 1.7 million full-text graduate works and 3.8 million abstracted or indexed records along with the ability to cross-search with other ProQuest resources.

1861 to present
WorldCat (public version)
Indexes items owned by libraries throughout the U.S. and parts of the world. Texas State does not own all the items listed in WorldCat. For fuller searching capabilities, use WorldCat on FirstSearch.

Dance in Video
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. 1955-present.
Contemporary World Music
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.
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
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. 1975-present.
Films on Demand: Master Academic Collection
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.
Jazz Music Library
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. 1920s to present
Kanopy Streaming
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.
Music Online
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.
Naxos Music Library
Classical music from Medieval to contemporary. 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.
Oxford Music Online
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.

Don't forget! You can access Google Scholar through the library website and have access to all the articles the library subscribes to.

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