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Music, Theatre and Dance
African American Music
- Afrocentric Voices in "Classical" MusicFocuses on African American performers and composers of vocal music, especially opera, art songs and spirituals.
- Black Music History LibraryIncludes books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts, and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day.
- Music by Black Composersvarious resources; coordinated by Rachel Barton Pine
- Eileen Southern and the Music of Black AmericansCovers the life and career of the 1st Black scholar to earn a PhD in musicology in the U.S., founder of the 1st long-running academic journal on Black music, and author of The Music of Black Americans (1971).
- Spirituals DatabaseSearchable recorded tracks from concert Negro Spiritual settings performed by solo Classical vocalists. Contains a selection from historic and contemporary concert spiritual recordings.
- Umbra Search African American HistoryFind digitized cultural materials from over 1,000 libraries and archives
- African Music LibraryAll about African genres, bands, instruments
Jazz
- All about JazzFeatures reviews, articles, musicians, etc.
- Passion for Jazz!Includes history, a timeline, glossary, history, festivals, chords and scales....
- Vernon “Dr. Daddy-O” Winslow Broadcast Recordings of “Jivin’ with Jax” on WWEZ AM New OrleansOriginally airing between 1949 and 1958, these digitized recordings represent the emergence of Black radio in New Orleans, featuring Winslow’s work as the first African American radio disc jockey on New Orleans airwaves. Live broadcasts, interviews, and radio segments courtesy of Tulane University Digital Library.
Popular Music
- AllMusicrates new releases in many genres; also has reviews and articles
Opera
- Met Opera On Demand This link opens in a new windowIncludes: * An Introduction to the Metropolitan Opera * Sights & Sounds of Met History * Sounds of the Met * MetOpera Database * Stories of the Operas * Photo Archive
- OperaVisionfree opera streaming, articles, teaching resources
Vocal Music
- Aria Databasecollection of information about opera and arias, including translations and sound files.
- LiederNet Archiveoriginal text of & translations (in many languages) for art songs, partsongs, madrigals, & choral works that are based on stand-alone poems
Indigenous / Native American Classical Music
Music and Modernity among First Peoples of North America by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2021A collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from Canada and the U.S. explores music and Indigeneity from hip-hop to powwow, and television soundtracks of Native Classical and experimental music.
See "About the Editors and Contributors," pp. 313-316 (pdf pages 105-108).- Native American Elements in Piano Repertoire by the Indianist and Present-Day Native American Composers byPublication Date: 2010Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) dissertation from University of North Texas, UNT Digital Library.
- Native Classical: Musical Modernities, Indigenous Research Methodologies, and a Kanienkéha (Mohawk) Concept of Non:wa (Now) byPublication Date: 2014PhD Dissertation, University of Maryland
- Opera Indigene: Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures : Re/presenting First Nations and Indigenous Cultures byPublication Date: 2011Explores how operas on Indigenous subjects reflect the evolving relationships between Indigenous peoples, the colonizing forces of imperial power, and forms of internal colonization in developing nation-states: Canada, the Americas and Australia.
- Native American Composersarticle: Wein, Gail. New Music USA: NewMusicBox, 2009.
Native composers in our streaming music collections:
- Andrew BalfourCree composer's work on Naxos
- Barbara Assiginaak (Croall)Anishinaabekwe (Odawa, Ojibwe and Potawatomi) composer's work on Naxos
- Brent Michael DavidsMohican/Munsee-Lenape composer's music on Naxos
- Connor CheeDiné (Navajo) composer's work on Naxos
- David YeagleyComanche composer's work on Naxos
- George QuincyChoctaw composer's work on Naxos
- Ian CussonMétis composer's work on Naxos
- Jerod Impichchaachaaha' TateChickasaw composer's work on Naxos
- Jim PepperKaw/Creek composer's work on Naxos Jazz
- Louis Ballard's classical musicin Naxos
- Louis W. Ballard [Honganózhe]article from Oxford Music Online
- R. Carlos NakaiUte-Navajo composer's work on Naxos World
- Raven ChaconDiné (Navajo) composer's work on Naxos
- Víctor RasgadoOaxacan (Mexico) composer's works on Naxos
Computer/Electronic Music
- Synthtopiacovers all types and genres of electronic music, artists, reviews, instruments and equipment, trends.
Subjects: Music
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