Walker Library: History of Christianity: Media & Music

Media

Alexander Street Academic Video Online (AVON)
The AVON (Academic Videos Online) streaming platform provides on-demand access to over 60,000 streaming videos. Content providers include PBS, BBC, Sony Picture Classics, CNN, BBC, and more.

Detailed description of available AVON collections at https://video-alexanderstreet-com.ezproxy.mtsu.edu/collections.
American History in Video

Collection of videos available online for the study of American history.
Docuseek2

Streaming documentary films from a number of sources, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, and the National Film Board of Canada. Many films in this collection focus on social and environmental issues.

Docuseek Help Wiki
Instructors can register a personal account in order to create clips and playlists.
Ethnographic Video Online

Streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs and contemporary studies covering human behavior the world over.
Ethnographic Video Online contains more than 500 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries produced by leading video producers in the discipline; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films.
Title List (Excel file)
- MTSU has perpetual access to Volume I titles
- MTSU has subscription access to Voume II, III, IV, Teaching edition, Sound Archives
Films on Demand
33 full length videos for the study of literature, history, religion and theater.

Create a personal account to customize playlists, create clips, and access other features.
Films on Demand Tools & Features
Kanopy Streaming Video
Watch streaming films, documentaries, and training videos from Criterion Collection, Women Make Movies, First Run Features, and other leading producers. The library owns some titles on this platform, but most content is leased solely for classroom use; see https://library.mtsu.edu/mediaresources/policy

Kanopy Troubleshooting Guide
Kanopy Accessibility Statement
Creating playlists and/or clips (Must first create a Kanopy account)

Music

Center for Popular Music
The Center for Popular Music's Finding Aids, https://popmusic.mtsu.edu/findingaids/, is a great place to start. Also, check out Online Exhibits, https://popmusic.mtsu.edu/exhibits/.

Classical Music Library
The Medieval Era has many religious songs, music, chants,etc.

Unlimited simultaneous users permitted.
African American Music Reference
Chronicles the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.

• Full text from major reference works
• Biographies and personal narratives from oral histories
• Manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources
cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and
blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression

Hymnary
Hymnary.org: a comprehensive index of hymns and hymnals

Grove Music Online

Online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Limit of one simultaneous user.

Grove Music Online includes:
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (29 volumes, 2001)
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (3 volumes, 2002)
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes, 1992)
The Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1 volume, 1994)
The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (8 volumes, 2013; in process)
The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition (5 volumes, 2014; in process)