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Performing Arts Encyclopedia
 
A guide to the performing arts collections and exhibits from the Library of Congress. Collection subjects include dance (ballet and modern dance), music (such as instruments, chamber music, and jazz), opera, theater, radio and television, vaudeville, and blacks and women in the performing arts. Browse by subject or person. Also includes featured events and webcasts. "Please note that most collections are only available by visiting the Library in Washington, D.C." From the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/guide/
Topics: Performing Arts
Last updated Nov 30, 2007
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
"A guide to performing arts resources at the Library of Congress. ... Users can find digitized items from the collections; special Web presentations on topics and collections; articles and biographical essays; finding aids to collections; databases for performing arts resources; information on concerts at the Library; and a special Performing Arts Resource Guide which contains entries for hundreds of Library collections, Web sites, databases and exhibits."
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/
Topics: Music, Performing Arts, Photograph Collections
Last updated Aug 24, 2008
Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923
A database of 16,000 objects (printed material, audio, and video) from "the Broadway theater and Tin Pan Alley to the art of dancer Loie Fuller and composer Charles Griffes." Searchable; and browsable by name, title, subject, and format (books, clippings, photographs, manuscripts, moving images, music, posters and lobby cards, programs, recorded sounds). Includes sections on dance, music, and theatrical productions. From the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
http://digital.nypl.org/lpa/nypl/sitemap/sitemap.cfm
Topics: Performing Arts, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States
Last updated Jun 3, 2005
SIBMAS: International Dictionary of Performing Arts Collections and Institutions
A listing of "over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts (theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime). Not only basic information about the institution is provided, but also information about the collections which are to be found within the institutions." Browse alphabetically by name, in both original language and English; by collection; or location. From the Société Internationale des Bibliothèques et des Musées des Arts du Spectacle (SIBMAS).
http://www.sibmas.org/
Topics: Libraries & Archives by Type, Museums, Performing Arts
Last updated Jun 3, 2005
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