Art and Entertainment
African American Music Reference contains more than 3,000 essays and images that offer coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
American Song contains thousands of tracks that allow people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more. Content from African American Song is now a part of American Song.
This index covers periodical articles back to 1929. Find information on fine, decorative, and commercial art. Art Index includes American, Latin American, Canadian, Asian and non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
Classical Music Library is a fully searchable comprehensive database of tens of thousands of distinguished classical recordings. The audio selections are linked to supplementary reference information about the composer and performers in addition to details pertaining to each particular recording.
Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 17,000 pages of reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Classical Scores Library contains the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores.
Contemporary World Music contains tens of thousands of tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Dance in Video contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
This collection provides more than 150 full-text magazines and journals, providing support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Although the majority of the content in this database is available through the Academic OneFile and/or General OneFile databases, there is some original subject-specific content as well.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of essays, images and audio examples, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
Jazz Music Library contains thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. The collection includes works licensed from legendary record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige.
Opera in Video contains some of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.
Research every period of art history, art forms in every country, art in different civilizations and cultures, styles and movements, art techniques, and art theories. Find out about painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts, and photography. Oxford Art Online includes thousands of artist biographies.
Learn about musicians, music styles, music terms, and instruments. Explore musician biographies by time period, musical style, geographical area, and more. Includes links to websites containing music images and sounds.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides users with a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. The database includes tens of thousands of individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 performances of the world's leading plays and more than 100 film documentaries in streaming video. Users can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging. It also includes interviews with directors, designers, writers and actors.
