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DANC/MUSC 005 : Patterns of Asian Dance & Music (SC)
Exploring General Sources:
International encyclopedia of dance
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Contains good articles on asian dance each with a bibliography for further research. Try looking under the name of a geographic region or country and looking in the index in the final volume of the set.
The JVC video anthology of world music and dance
Publisher: [Tokyo] : JVC, Victor Company of Japan [1990]
Production: Produced in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka) and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.
The guides to this 30 DVD anthology are a great place to get started: v.2. East Asia, v.3. Southeast Asia, v.4. South Asia.
The Garland encyclopedia of world music
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub., 1998-c2002.
One can't talk about world music without discussing world dance. The following volumes are well worth browsing: v. 4. Southeast Asia, v. 5. South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent, v.7. East Asia: China, Japan and Korea.
Grove music online
Covers all topics related to ethnomusicology discussed in extensive and scholarly articles with excellent bibliographies.
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.
Google scholar, advanced search
A good way to explore. Notice that some of your search results offer the "Find it @ Swarhtmore" link.
Exploring Regional Sources:
The Cambridge encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives
Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan
Includes more than 11,000 main-text entries on Japanese politics, government, economics, corporate behavior, art, culture, and history.
Finding Video and Sound Recordings:
The JVC video anthology of world music and dance
Publisher: [Tokyo] : JVC, Victor Company of Japan [1990]
Production: Produced in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka) and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.
pt. 1-2. Korea -- pt.3-4. China -- pt.5. China, Mongolia -- pt.6. Vietnam, Cambodia -- pt.7. Thailand, Burma -- pt.8. Malaysia, Philippines -- pt.9-10. Indonesia -- pt.11-13. India -- pt.14. Pakistan, Bangladesh -- pt.15. Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan -- pt.26. Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik, Kirgiz, Kalmyk, Mari, Bashkir, Siberia.
Smithsonian global sound
Offers recordings from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Folkways Records, as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) in New Delhi, India. Try browsing by geographic area or cultural group.
Tri-College World Music Recordings
A webpage created by former Swarthmore Music Librarian, George Huber, browsable by geographic area. (For the most recent recordings use the Tripod Music Search.)
Tripod Music Search
Besides keyword searching, you might find the following subject searches useful:
dance [country]
folk music [country]
folk dancing [country]
folk dance music [country]
music [country]
[type of dance style]
[type of music style]
Use the "Request" button to have materials delivered to Swarthmore from Bryn Mawr or Haverford.
dance [country]
folk music [country]
folk dancing [country]
folk dance music [country]
music [country]
[type of dance style]
[type of music style]
Use the "Request" button to have materials delivered to Swarthmore from Bryn Mawr or Haverford.
Tripod Video Search
See suggestions above.
Finding Books:
Tripod Search
See the suggestions above. The advanced search allows you to limit by material type book.
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. It includes materials in many languages and serves as an index to an international range of dance periodicals.
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:
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, theatre, and music. Covers 1971-present.
Arts & humanities citation index
Provider: ISI
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities with selected, relevant items from major science and social science journals. References to and from journal articles can also be searched. Swarthmore has access to the AHCI from 1975 to the present through Web of Science.
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.
RILM abstracts of music literature
Provider: CSA
The premier index for scholarly music research including musicians health issues. Produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale from 1969 to the present.
International index to the performing arts
Publisher: [Alexandria, Va.] : Chadwyck-Healey, Inc.,
Indexes and summarizes articles in over 210 journals and includes full text for over 50 of these. Some indexing goes back as far as 1864.
Bibliography of Asian studies
Provides citations to journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festshriften on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Covers 1971-present. Complete citations end with the 1991 records. Since 1992, newly published books are no longer being added.
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.
ATLA religion database + ATLAS
Provider: SilverPlatter
Provides online access to the entire core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly journals in the field of religion. Also provides citation information for journal articles, book reviews and essays for over 600 journals in the fields of religion and theology. Covers 1949-present.
Getting Materials not at Swarthmore:
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