Library Guides: Dance: Music and Videos

Dance Online

Jacobs Pillow Dance Interactive
"An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today."
Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library
An online archive of rare video documenting social performance in the Americas
Google Advanced Video Search
Search for videos by choreographer, title, artist, dance company, etc.
PBS LearningMedia: Dance
Curricular materials for K-12
FolkStreams: Dance
Documentaries that focus on the culture, struggles, and arts -- including dance -- of unnoticed Americans from many different kinds of communities.
Dance Films Association's Videos on Vimeo
DFA seeks to be a catalyst for innovation in and preservation of dance on camera
Dance Channel TV (YouTube)
Browseable by categories such as Ballet and Modern
Numeridanse TV
Multimedia dance platform
Dance-Tech TV
"Free, on-demand video platform focused on contemporary experimentation and innovation on the performance of movement."

Music and Sound Recordings

International Folk Dances
A collection of music suitable for authentic folk dancing, most of it transferred from old 78 rpm and vinyl disc recordings.
Archival Sound Recordings Digital access to selected recordings from the British Library Sound Archive. Researchers can search all recordings on the site, listen to recordings where copyright permits.
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Classical Connect Free classical music site
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project A collection of historical music available for streaming and download from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Early Music Radio & Streaming | Early Music America An archive compiled through user submissions.
Early Music Recordings | Yale University A list maintained by librarians at Yale University Libraries.
Internet Archive Music and Arts Collection The audio Music collection features nearly 600 virtual record labels found in the Netlabels collection, the unique contemporary compositions and performances found in the Other Minds collection, and the hundreds of popular songs from the early 20th Century found in the 78 RPM collection.
The Monterey Jazz Festival Collection The festival's archive - preserved by the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound - contains recordings of live festival performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.
National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
NPR Music National Public Radio interviews, profiles, videos, tiny desk concerts, and other performances.
Turning the Tables: The 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women | NPR "This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and present (2017) is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record. It rethinks popular music to put women at the center." Most songs can be found on Naxos, Naxos Jazz, YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, or AllMusic.

Dance: Music and Videos

SU Collections

Dance Online

Music and Sound Recordings