Articles in Performing Arts databases
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowOver one thousand academic journals and other scholarly content.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedia of Popular Music, Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and Oxford Companion to Music.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index This link opens in a new windowCitations and some full-text from over 1,400 arts and humanities journals.
- Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new windowFull text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Covers all aspects of the humanities, with worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
Music Theatre Journals
Some journals are not included in our general databases, but you can search them individually. To search one of these journals, click on the title below and select the link in the "Journal Title" column corresponding to the date range that best fits your needs. Then find the option to search within the journal.
Image and video resources
- Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window* Includes a Broadway HD channel
* Over 68,000 titles spanning a wide range of subjects: anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. AVON includes a variety of video material with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage. - Films on Demand Video Collection This link opens in a new windowHigh quality videos on dance & music, business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
- Artstor This link opens in a new windowMore than 2.5 million images related to art, art history, architecture, painting, photography, and visual and material culture.
Get background information
Gather background information to learn about your topic by using encyclopedias and other reference materials. A few suggestions are listed below.
The encyclopedia of the musical theatreCall Number: 782.1403 G159en2 v.1-3
Blumenfeld's dictionary of musical theater : opera, operetta, musical comedyCall Number: REF. 782.1403 B626bL
American musical theatre : a chronicleCall Number: REF. 782.14 B644am2
A chronology of American musical theaterCall Number: REF 782.1409 N811ch v.1-3A 2nd copy is on the 3rd floor of the library with call number 782.1409 N811ch v.1-3.
Show tunes : the songs, shows, and careers of Broadway's major composersCall Number: 782.810922 Su81sh4
American Song: the Complete Musical Theatre CompanionCall Number: REF. 782.81 B623am v.1-2
Oxford Handbook of the American MusicalCall Number: 782.1409 Ox2kn
Broadway, the American Musical part 1-2Call Number: Online accessEpisode 1: Give my regards to broadway (1893-1927) & Episode 2: Syncopated city (1919-1933).
This video is also available on DVD with call number 782.1409 B78ka v.1- Broadway, the American Musical part 3-4Call Number: Online accessEpisode 3: I got plenty of nuttin' (1929-1942) & Episode 4: Oh, what a beautiful mornin' (1943-1960).
This video is also available on DVD with call number 782.1409 B78ka v.2 - Broadway, the American Musical part 5-6Call Number: Online accessEpisode 5: Tradition (1957-1979) & Episode 6: Putting it together (1980-Present).
This video is also available on DVD with call number 782.1409 B78ka v.3
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