Covers all aspects of the diverse dance world from classical ballet to modern, from flamenco to hip-hop, from tap to South Asian dance forms and includes detailed entries on technical terms, steps, styles, works, and countries, in addition to many biographies of dancers, choreographers, and companies.
This dictionary is included within the Biographies in Context database. Includes biographies, articles and bibliographies for prominent people in the field of Dance.
With nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries, the Encyclopedia covers the full spectrum of dance—theatrical, ritual, dance-drama, folk, traditional, ethnic, and social dance. Cultural and national overviews are accompanied by entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
Periodical Databases
Use these databases to search for articles in journals and magazines.
Complete fulltext (page images) for back issues of various leading scholarly journals. Journals covering dance include: Dance Chronicle, Dance Research Journal, CORD News, Dance Research: the Journal of the Society for Dance Research, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and Performing Arts Journal.
Music journal resource with more than 770,000 articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular.
ProQuest's Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive contains the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000.
Digital copies of complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines, from their inception to 2015. Subject coverage includes film industry, music business, rock and pop, jazz and blues, theater, television, and radio. Content Description Links to Title Lists