Music and Dance  

New Titles

• Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image
  GV1779 .B73 2011
  (Main Stacks, 3rd floor)
  
  
• Music and Urban Society in Colonial Latin America
  ML3917 .L2M86 2011 
  (Main Stacks, 4th floor)
  
  
• I Am Hip-Hop: Conversations on the Music and Culture
  ML394 .R3878 2011
  (Main Stacks, 4th floor)

Music and Dance

Resources on the study of music and dance. 

Library of Congress Call Number Ranges: 

Music---M
Dance---GV1580-1799.4

This collection includes sources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and directories to help find brief explanations and general information about terms and concepts in music and dance.

Reference Sources in Music and Dance

• New Grove dictionary of music and musicians. ML100 .N48 2001 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• Encyclopedia of rap and hip-hop culture. ML102 .R27 B96 2006 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• Blumenfeld's Dictionary of Musical Theater: Opera, Operetta, Musical Comedy ML102 .M875 B58 2010 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world. ML102 .P66 C66 2003 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• New Grove dictionary of jazz ML102 .J3 N48 2002 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• International encyclopedia of dance GV1585 .I586 1998 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• Film Choreographers and dance directors: an illustrated biographical encyclopedia. GV1779 .B55 1997 (Reference, 2nd floor)
• Social dancing in America: a history and reference. GV1623 .G56 2007 (Reference, 2nd floor)

Online Reference Sources in Music and Dance

• Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
• Music Tech Dictionary
• Oxford Dictionary of Dance
• The Professional Musician’s Legal Companion
• Oxford Companion to Music
• Laptop Music Power: The Comprehensive Guide
• Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical

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