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Databases
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Global Road Warrior This link opens in a new windowProvides information on 175 countries. Topics include country facts, climate, society & culture, demographics, money and banking, points of interest, transportation, maps, and communications.
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International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full text of journal articles on all aspects of theater and performance, plus indexing for books, book articles and dissertation abstracts.
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KlondikeSearch: Finding Books
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KlondikeSearch This link opens in a new windowSearches across many different subject areas and disciplines. Using KlondikeSearch, you will find articles, e-books, print books, newspapers and streaming media. To find print books in the ONU Libraries or in OhioLINK, use KlondikeSearch.
The video below demonstrates ways to limit your search to find books in KlondikeSearch.
Print Books
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International Encyclopedia of Dance byCall Number: 792.6203 I61 (OVERSIZE)ISBN: 01951230506 volume set on dance around the world, including cultural and national overviews plus information on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
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The Dance Experience
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Call Number: 792.8 N134dISBN: 0871272512Publication Date: 2003-03-01Using a global approach, this collection of 22 original essays considers ballet, modern, jazz, and tap dance, Broadway and movie dance, folk, ethnic, and social dance. Explores the significance of dance in culture, its relationship to other art forms, the contributions of great choreographers, dancers, and teachers, and the creative process. Africa, Europe, North America and Latin America. -
Baila! byCall Number: 016.78 G779bISBN: 9780984413430Focuses on the diffusion of Cuban popular musical styles throughout the Americas as well as the creation of new hybrids in places such as Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Latin New York. Also includes information on the history and evolution of lesser-known regional styles such as Colombian champeta, Puerto Rican bomba y plena and Dominican bachata as well as such well-known transnational idioms as mambo, salsa and merengue.
Ebooks
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Dancing from Past to Present
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ISBN: 0299218538Ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance between past and present and examine how dance and bodily practices are core identity and cultural creators. -
The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies
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ISBN: 9781315306520Maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments. It locates these features both historically--within dance in particular social and cultural contexts--and in relation to other academic influences that have impinged on dance studies as a discipline.
