Research Guides: CAST 110B: Dance and Migration: Streaming Sound and Video

International music resources from the Boston Public Library

You'll need a free BPL electronic library card (an eCard) to access these databases; see this page for information on how to get one.

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound
"A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions."
Music Online: Contemporary World Music
Delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. Contains multiple genres including reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

Dance Online: Dance in Video
Performances, documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos featuring the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century, including ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
Streaming video access to recorded dance festival performances, from the 1930s to the present day.
Numeridanse TV
Multimedia dance platform offers free access to a unique video database: filmed performances, documentaries, interviews, fictions, and dance videos. Multiple genres, styles and forms are featured: butoh, classical ballet, neo-classical ballet, baroque, Indian, African, flamenco, contemporary, traditional dances, hip-hop, tango, jazz, circus arts, performance, etc.
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Led and coordinated by the Maison de la Danse, Lyon, and devised by director Charles Picq, this project was created and developed in coordination with the French National Centre for Dance (CND) and is supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation and the French Ministry for Culture.