First Year Seminar 16: Performance
Fall 2006
- Reviews and Current Articles
- A Selection of Theater, Music & Dance on the Web
- Access to Scholarship about Theater, Music & Dance
- Help from the Library and Other Useful Tips
Reviews and Current Articles
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Access to complete articles from many newspapers worldwide. A place to start looking for very recent (but not very scholarly) reviews.
Expanded
Academic ASAP and Academic
Search Premier: Articles and reviews from many scholarly and popular publications.
General Reference Center Gold:Index to popular arts titles such as Variety, Backstage, and Time Out.
Alt Press Watch and Alternative Press Index Access to articles and reviews in less mainstream press.
Journal
Locator/Citation Linker See if a journal is available
at AC; connect to electronic copies or look in library catalog for print
journals
Selected Theater, Music, Dance on the Web
Playbill: News, ads, gossip, schedules, tickets, and more. To get a flavor of theater as both art and enterprise.
Playbill Arts: Classical music, opera, dance, jazz. Current schedules, news, interviews, tickets, etc.
CurtainUp: An Internet theater magazine of reviews, features and annotated listings (current listings and reviews).
Dance Insider Online: News and controversies from the world of professional dance. Includes a searchable section with "flash" reviews, ballet and modern dance images, video clips, etc.
AllAboutOpera.com: A website that cliams to be the "gateway to opera on the web." Good for quick summaries of operas, opera scores online, current schedules, opera gifts, and any other opera-related thing or information you can imagine.
Access to Scholarship about Theater, Music, & Dance
Five College Library Catalog: All the books owned by the Five College
libraries listed. Use subject keywords"stage" and "history" with a major playwright to find productions of his/her plays over time.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online: Browse this database for production histories and then choose the play. So many articles and books about Shakespeare that you will get dizzy.
International Index to Music Periodicals: Scholarly and specialized journals for the study of music. Some reviews listed too.
Don't forget that the general databases that index reviews often list contents of scholarly journals.
Help from the Library And Other Useful Tips
Ask for help! Reference
and research advice from the experts. Or just Ask
Us on email.
Be sure to credit the sources you use for any project
-- whether printed books and journals or online texts, websites, etc.
The Citing References: MLA Style from the Library at University
of Wisconsin - Whitewater tells you how to cite all kinds of sources for
courses in literature. Or use The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers at the Reference Desk in Frost Library.
Don't forget all the computers in the Library. You can print from them too.
The Writing
Center and Information
Technology are always standing by...
Do you have questions about research in this course? Contact Margaret Adams Groesbeck (email:magroesbeck; voice: x2098)