Academic Video Online

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February 2015 Database of the Month


Academic Video Online: Premium 
 
is Alexander Street’s most comprehensive video subscription, an ever-growing resource that comprises content from 39 full video collections and 8 bonus discipline clusters.

Titles in every collection and cluster within Academic Video Online: Premium have been carefully selected to meet departmental needs and include documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. You’ll find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy® and Emmy® winners, the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, newly released films, and archival material previously unavailable. Click here for  a complete list of collections.

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Bob Dylan

Week of May 28, 2012

Bob Dylan

In the News: Folk and rock musician, Robert Allen Zimmerman, a.k.a. Bob Dylan, turned 71 on May 24th.

 

Alias Bob Dylan Revisited
By Stephen Scobie. Red Deer Press, 2004
Call Number: ML420 .D98 S36 2004

Bob Dylan
By Keith Negus. Indiana University Press, 2008
Call Number: ML420 .D98 N44 2008

Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography, and Filmography, 1961-2007
By John Nogowski. McFarland, 2008
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Madonna

Week of April 9, 2012

Madonna, Madonna, Madonna

In the News: Pop icon Madonna released her twelfth album, MDNA, in late March, almost twenty-nine years after the debut of her self-titled Madonna (1983) which featured the singles “Holiday,” “Lucky Star,” and “Borderline.”

The Adventures of Abdi
By Madonna. Viking Children’s Books, 2004
Call Number: PZ8 .M26. 2004 (At Treasure Coast)

Dick Tracy (DVD)
Directed by Warren Beatty. Warner Bros., 1990
Call Number: PN1997 .D473 2002 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The English Roses
By Madonna. Callaway, 2003
Call Number: PZ .M26573 En 2003 (At Treasure Coast)

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Soul Train / Susan G. Komen

Week of February 6, 2012

Soul Train / Susan G. Komen

In the News: Don Cornelius, creator and host of Soul Train, has died at the age of 75.

Also In the News: The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation had initially announced that it would eliminate most of its grants to Planned Parenthood. It has since reversed its controversial decision.

 

SOUL TRAIN

African American Music Reference (Database)
Alexander Street Press
Available online

All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R&B and Soul
Edited by Vladimir Bogdanov et al. All Media Guide/Backbeat Books, 2003
Call Number: ML156.4 .S6 A45 2003

Black Popular Music in America: From the Spirituals, Minstrels, and Ragtime to Soul, Disco and Hip-Hop
By Arnold Shaw. Schirmer Books, 1986
Call Number: ML3556 .S5 1986

A Critical History of Soul Train on Television
By Christopher P. Lehman. McFarland, 2008
Call Number: PN1992.77 .S664 L44 2008

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Classical Scores Library – March Database of the Month

Classical Scores Library contains hundreds of thousands of pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 24,000 musical scores.

Classical Scores Library allows users to access multiple types of scores across various composers, genres, and time periods. Within seconds, beginning music students can explore Beethoven’s entire compositional output, or music experts can compare different musical settings of the Magnificat from the 15th century to the 21st century-without the need to find and carry heavy scores and multiple CDs. To include audio files and reference materials in your search, you can access Classical Scores Library through the Music Online database. Continue reading

Classical Music Library – May Database of the Month

Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource — a comprehensive collection of distinguished classical recordings from renowned classical music labels such as EMI, Decca and Deutsche Grammophon. You can also search Classical Music Library along with other music reference databases at Music Online.

Especially useful features are the Playlists and clip-making tools which allow you to organize content and integrate a group of selected works or movements into course assignments. For information on other features see Classical Music Library has a new look.

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Digital Collection of the Month: Department of Music

The Digital Library celebrates November with a brand new digital collection from the Department of Music.  All of the Department’s 2008 performances, concerts and recitals are available online for your listening pleasure.

November is a notable music month with the births of legendary composers Aaron Copland, Scott Joplin, and Manuel de Falla.

To access the collection, please click here.

In the News: Woodstock, 1969

Week of August 17, 2009

News Item: Forty years ago more than 300,000 people swarmed to a farm in Bethel, New York to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair which featured performers such as Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Joan Baez. Rain, mud, traffic jams, food shortages, psychedelic drugs, and marijuana were other festival highlights. Concert promoters had initially approached the towns of Woodstock and Wallkill to host the event, but suitable venues were not available. Instead, the event was held on a dairy farm belonging to Max Yasgur.

America in White, Black, and Gray: The Stormy 1960s
By Klaus P. Fischer. Continuum International Pub. Group, 2006
Call Number: E841 .F49 2006 (At Jupiter)

And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir
By Joan Baez. Summit Books, 1987
Call Number: ML420 .B114 A3 1987

Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969
By Robert Stephen Spitz. Viking Press, 1979
Call Number: ML38 .W66 S6

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