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Introduction to Dance

This LibGuide is intended as a resource for the study and research of dance at Carthage College. This homepage provides links to databases and useful websites. The tabs above will assist with book and video resources.

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Subjects: Art, Art History, Asian Studies, Communication , Dance, English, History, Intellectual Foundations, Japanese, Music, Public Relations, Theatre, Women's and Gender Studies

Research Tools

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Electronic Resources

Electronic Resources

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Full Text Finder

Full Text Finder is not an article database, it is a portal to journal availability within the library database and serials collections.

General Databases

Academic Onefile
Searches many peer reviewed full text journal articles in multiple disciplines.

Academic Search Complete
Indexes and abstracts over 18,000 journals in science and technology, psychology, religion and philosophy, etc. Over 4,800 journals are peer-reviewed and full text.

Subject Journal Databases

JSTOR
A digital library providing access to books, primary sources, and archival and current issues of over 2,000 scholarly journals across from over 50 academic disciplines. View this tutorial:

International Encyclopedia of Dance
With nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries, the Encyclopedia covers the full spectrum of dance—theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.

Websites

Dance Magazine
This is a non-scholarly magazine. It contains great articles, reviews, and interviews with those in the dance community.
Dance USA
This is a professional membership organization established in 1982 for professional dancers.
Lincoln Center's Dance
Contains many videos from the Lincoln Center and New York City Ballet.

Media

Films on Demand
Collection of educational humanities, arts and social science videos that viewers can stream directly from their computer.

Naxos Music Library
This sound library contains over 174,300 CD-length recordings, including classical music, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music, which users can search for by composer, artist, period, year of composition, solo instrument, or genre. View Tutorial:

Soundzabound
Royalty-free music and sound clips for educational use. Includes full sound effects library and more.

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