Macdonald-Kelce Library: Dance: Best Bets

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Use Spartan Search to search the library's collection of DVDs and literature related to dance.

Please note that streaming media content is not indexed in Spartan Search and users should search those interfaces directly to find and access audio-video files.

Music & Dance Online This link opens in a new window
Music and Dance Online currently includes over 11 million audio tracks, 2,500 hours of video, 1.3 million pages of scores, and 500,000+ pages of reference, archival primary sources, and periodicals, comprising the largest and most comprehensive online offering of in-copyright audio and video performances and scores available anywhere.
Music & Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
Combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal music artists, composers, and ensembles.
Includes the following collections:
Music Online: American Music
Music Online: Classical Music Library
Music Reference Collection
Music Online: Jazz Music Library
Music Online: Popular Music Library
Music Online: Contemporary World Music
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
A continuously updated performing arts video library containing operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, and EuroArts, and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals, ebooks, primary sources, and ebooks in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and business.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly journals and ebooks covering the humanities and social sciences broadly, and more specifically topical areas such as ...
literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Books and journals from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. Offers Online Teaching & Learning Resources, Teaching & Content Alerts, content for Courses & Research. Also contains The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition gathers for the first time in one place the collected, uncollected, and unpublished prose. The fully searchable, integrative edition includes all of Eliot's collected essays, reviews, lectures, commentaries from The Criterion, and letters to editors, including more than 700 uncollected and 150 unpublished pieces from 1905 to 1965 and much more.
World Folklore and Folklife This link opens in a new window
This source describes the rich tradition of holidays, festivals, language, stories and fairy tales, proverbs, foodways, and folk remedies that define our society.
Fine Arts This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in the fields of drama, music, art history, and filmmaking.

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Call Numbers for Dance Materials

The University of Tampa's Macdonald-Kelce Library has a wide selection of materials pertaining to many aspects of dance. Below are the relevant Library of Congress classification areas to explore. All items in the library (other than Government Documents) are assigned a Library of Congress call number and are arranged on the shelves accordingly.

GV 1580: Dance periodicals
GV 1585: Dictionaries, encyclopedias
GV 1587: Terminology, abbreviations, notations
GV 1587.5: Directories
GV 1588: Philosophy and theory
GV 1589: Study and teaching
GV 1590-94: General overview of dance
GV 1595: Special aspects of the subject
GV 1596: Pictorial works
GV 1596.5: Juvenile works
GV 1597: Dancing as a profession
GV 1600-1620: Dance criticism, appreciation, history
GV 1621-1728: the above by geographical region
GV 1735: Apparatus and equipment
GV 1740-41: Ethics; Dancing and the church
GV 1743: National dances. Folk dances (general)
GV 1746-1771: Social dancing. Ballroom dancing
GV 1781-1795: Theatrical dancing
GV 1782.5: Choreography
GV 1783: Modern or expressionistic dancing
GV 1783.5: Religious dance
GV 1784: Jazz dance
GV 1785: Biography
GV 1785.8-1786: Dance groups or companies
GV 1786.32-1790: Ballet
GV 1793: Clog dancing
GV 1794: Tap dancing
GV 1796, A-Z: other dances, alphabetical by dance name
GV 1798: Gymnastic dancing; rhythmic exercise
GV 1799: Dances for special classes of persons