Swarthmore's Ghanian Dance Video Archive
The International Center for African Music and Dance (ICAMD) of the University of Ghana has given Swarthmore College some of its video archives including the Inaugural Conference for ICAMD held at the University of Ghana in the year 2000, the first conference for the Dance of Our Ancestors Festival which was held at Swarthmore College in 2005 and field recordings documenting the traditions of the Upper West Region, the annual National Festival of Arts and Culture, and community events such as funerals. A list describing the contents of the collection is available from the Performing Arts Librarian or Professor Yartey.
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DANC 072 : African Performance: Traditional & Contemporary Practices (SC)
Exploring:
Music of Ghana: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Ghana's Independence
from Smithsonian Global Sound
Ghana @ National Geographic World Music
Music and Dance @ Ghanaweb.com
Foundation Course in African Dance Drumming
by C.K. Ladzekpo at UC Berkeley
eHRAF world cultures
Contains ethnographic and other documents describing the cultures of the world. Includes books, journal articles, and dissertations that are compiled into culture profiles. Many documents are in full-text.
Finding Video and Sound Recordings:
James Koetting Ghana Field Recording Collection
Contains the complete 1974-75 field tapes made by James T. Koetting among the Kasena people of Ghana.
Ghana Videos in Tripod
The JVC Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of Africa
Publisher: Barre, VT : Distributed by Multicultural Media, c1996.
Format: DVD.
DVD 2 has video from Ghana
Ghana CDs in Tripod
Smithsonian global sound
Offers recordings from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Folkways Records, and partnering institution including the International Library of African Music.
Finding Books:
Ghanaian Dance Books in Tripod
New York Public Library Dance Catalog
The NYPL Dance Catalog lists works about all forms of dance, from all cultures, in print and other media.
WorldCat
Provider: OCLC
This is a gigantic catalog of materials owned by libraries all over the world listing books, journals, scores, sound recordings, videos, websites, and manuscript collections.
Finding Journal Articles:
Research review (University of Ghana. Institute of African Studies)
Publisher: [Legon] : The Institute, [1965-
A searchable index is available through the Database on Culture and Its Transmission in the African World. Swarthmore owns this journal from 1965-1999.
Africa-wide
Provider: NISC
Offers access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa including books, journal articles, maps and music recordings. Some materials are in full-text. Covers 19th century-present.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides online access to an extensive collection of full-text articles from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including dance, music, theatre, and religion. Covers 1971-present.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: ISI
Multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. Covers 1975- present.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
International index to the performing arts
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.,
Provides abstracts and full-text to journal articles. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, theater, opera, and broadcasting. Covers 1864-present.
RILM abstracts of music literature
Provider: CSA
Covers material published in music and various other fields as they relate to music. Records appear in over a hundred languages. The majority of citations include abstracts. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest.
Anthropology plus
Provides abstracts on journal articles, reports, commentaries and obituaries in many fields including social, cultural, physical, biological and linguistic anthropology; archaeology, ethnology, folklore and interdisciplinary studies. Covers the late 19th century-present.
AnthroSource
Provides full text articles from American Anthropological Association journals, newsletters, and bulletins. Covers 1888-present.
Anthropological index online
Offers information on journals kept at the Anthropology Library of the British Museum. Provides citations on a large number of titles in all areas of anthropology. Covers 1957-present.
Getting Materials not at Swarthmore:
If something you need is not available on Swarthmore’s campus then it can be requested through our Tri-College Borrowing and Interlibrary Loan services.
Citing Sources:
Guidelines for style and the documentation of sources for scholarly papers in music and dance follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. The manual is not available online but thorough explanations can be found in the Chicago/Turabian Documentation section of the UW-Madison Writing Center website. Citing the notes that accompany recordings and scores can be tricky. Williams College has a good citation guide for non-book formats.