DANC 483: History of Dance II
Professor: Karen Bradley
Librarian: Judy Markowitz
This guide will assist you in locating resources for your DANC 483 research assignments. For additional information, please contact Judy Markowitz, Reference Librarian, 301-314-1316, judym@umd.edu.
Most of the materials on dance are located in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library.
Hours of the Performing Arts Library.
Borrowing Materials from the Performing Arts Library.
See also the Dance Guide for additional information on researching dance.
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Subject Encyclopedias Subject Bibliographies What to do With a Known Journal citation Online Catalog: books; media Research Port, Databases and Find It Web Resources and Evaluation Citation Systems and Style Manuals
Bremser, Martha. Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. PA LIB REF GV1785.A1B74 1999
Giordano, Ralph. Social Dancing in America. PA LIB REF GV1623.G56 2007
International Dictionary of Ballet. PA LIB REF GV1585.I57 1993 vols. 1-2
International Dictionary of Modern Dance. PA LIB REF GV1585.B46 1998
International Encyclopedia of Dance. PA LIB REF GV1586.I586 1998 vols. 1-6
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- Adamczyk, Alice. Black Dance. An Annotated Bibliography. PA LIB REF GV1595.A25 1989
- Forbes, Fred. Dance: An Annotated Bibliography, 1964-1982. PA LIB REF GV1594.F67 1986
Add the word bibliography to your Catalog search (the subject word/s search works best) to locate additional bibliographies.
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Sometimes you will already have a journal article citation from your professor or a reference list. You will need to determine if we own the journal and/or if the article is available fulltext.
Use the Full Text Finder (http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/fulltext.html or type in full text finder in the search box on the libraries homepage)
What to do With a Known Journal Citation
Examples:
Azzi, Maria Susana. "Multicultural Tango: The Impact and the Contribution of the Italian Immigration to the Tango in Argentina." International Journal of Musicology 5 (1996)
Viladrich, Anahi. Neither Virgins nor Whores: tango lyrics and gender representations in the tango world. Journal of Popular Culture 2006 39(2): 272-293.
Viladrich, Anahi. Performing the Tango's Dual Life: Immigrant tales from the field. Women & Performance; 2005, vol. 14 Issue 28, p.105-110.
Durbin, Paula. In the Embrace of the Tango. Dance Magazine; Feb2006, vol. 80 Issue 2, p17-18
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Online Catalog
Use The Catalog to locate bibliographies, books and videos about your topic or dancer or choreographer.
Researching a topic:
Word/s anywhere:
tango
ballet and (19th or nineteenth)
danc* and history and 20th
danc* and europe and 20th
(medieval or middle ages) and danc*
musicals and danc*
vaudeville and danc*
"hip hop" and danc*
The asterisk following danc* = truncation and will retrieve words with danc as the root - dance or dancing or dancer or dances..
The quotation marks = phrase searching
Once you have identified relevant books, be sure to at the Library of Congress Subject Headings. These headings appear when you view the full information. Why look at the LC headings?
If you follow the Library of Congress Subject heading link you will identify additional books on your topic.
Also use the LC headings to refine your search, (narrow or broad) by adding the headings to your word search.
A search for books on the topic of the history of ballet, conducted using keywords: ballet and history. will retrieve over 200 items. Many will probably not be relevant.
Find one or two that are relevant, follow the subject heading/s, ballet - history; ballet-russia-history; ballet-history-18th century; ballet-france-history-18th century
Some sample Subject Headings:
tango (dance)
modern dance history
afro-american dance history
dancing england history / dance england history
dancing russian history
Using danc* as a subject word should retrieve all the materials that have been assigned dance or dancing as a subject heading.
Once you know the beginning subject words you can also search by: Subject beginning with...:
musicals
dance england
ballet history
Be sure to look at the sub-divisions: criticism; history; anthropological; country; philosophy...
Searching the Catalog for information on a person:
search strategies:
Basic Search and the Subject beginning with...
tharp, twylaWord/s anywhere search and place the person's name in quotes:
The quotation marks around "twyla tharp" = phrase searching so you will only retrieve twyla tharp, not james tharp ...
"twyla tharp"
Depending on who you are researching, you may be able to use just the first box with the name in quotes or you can add keywords such as: danc* or choreograph*
Use the Advanced Search to limit format Videos/Films (all) and language and date.
Searching the Catalog for media (videos, dvds):
Media titles are held in Nonprint Media Services on the ground floor of Hornbake Library as well as in PA Lib. Some dance films are also available through the digital Films@UM. These films are accessible from library computers and remotely via .
Once in Advanced Search use the strategies above.
Citation for Chapter/Essay in a Book:
Reynolds, Dee A. "Dancing Free: Women's Movements in Early Modern Dance" IN: Modernism, Gender, and Culture: A Cultural Studies Approach, edited by Lisa Rado. Garland: NY, 1997. pp. 247-79
(CHAPTER IN A BOOK) - Search the catalog under the title of the book (Modernism, Gender..) or the editor (Lisa Rado) - NOT the author of the chapter (Reynolds) or the title of the chapter (Dancing Free)
Research Port is the Libraries gateway to the databases and electronic journals and off campus access. When using a database, be sure to follow the 
button. This will direct you to the available full text, the catalog (if the library subscribes to the journal),
or Interlibrary Loan if full-text is not available and if the Libraries do not subscribe to the journal or own the needed vol/issue.
- Academic Search Premier Multidisciplinary, covers dance topics.
- America. History and Life
Provides abstracts and some full-text of journal articles on United States and Canadian history. The history of dance is included.
- Historical Abstracts
Provides abstracts and some full-text of journal articles on history outside of the United States and Canada. The history of dance is included.
Strategies for America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts: US and World history can be searched at the same time.
Start with a keyword search, look at subjects
Limits: LANGUAGE = english / DOCUMENT TYPE = article / CONTENT TIME PERIOD
danc* and gender in KEYWORDS
isadora duncan in KEYWORDS
ballet in KEYWORDS
Some SUBJECT TERMS: blacks and dance / modern dance - International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance Covers all aspects of dance.
- Jstor Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of journals with full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years.
- Project Muse Full text of recent issues of over 240 journals from 40 scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literary studies, history, the visual & performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many other arts and humanities and social science disciplines.
- New York Public Library Dance Catalog
Lists the holdings of the New York Public Library Dance Collection. The collection consists of books, periodical articles, video recordings, and other media. All forms of dance, from all cultures, in many languages are included. THERE IS NO LINK FROM THE NYPLDC. When you locate an item, check the catalog or the Full Text Finder
Strategies:
Looking for materials on a subject, start with a WORDS search then follow the SUBJECT
dance and russia and history / dance and russia and 20th
renaissance and danc*
Looking for materials on a person, start with a subject search: tharp, twyla
There are many other databases to use depending on the topic:
In addition, limit the search by using the word search and adding names of works or other words:
twyla tharp and as time goes by
twyla tharp and (technique or style or choreography or influence) in WORD
LIMIT BY: LANGUAGE; FORMAT=PRINTED MATERIALS/MICROFORMS; DATE and SORT BY DATE
Education = ERIC; Education Research Complete
Music = RILM; Music Index; Audio databases
Check databases by subject.
Catron, Louis. Theatre Sources Dot Com : a Complete Guide to Online Theatre and Dance Resources. REF PA LIB PN2052.C38 2001
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WEB RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Use the Citation Systems and Style Manuals library guide to make sure you are citing correctly. Includes MLA and Chicago/Turabin styles.Citation Systems and Style Manuals
