Research Guides: Dance: Reference Resources

Encyclopedias in print collection

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Call Number: ML 100 .G16 1998
Also includes sound recordings available at the circulation desk.

Here are some excellent reference books in the Dixie State University Library collection.

International Encyclopedia of Dance: a project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. by Cohen, Selma Jeanne
Call Number: GV 1585 .I586 1998
International Dictionary of Modern Dance
Call Number: Reference GV 1585 .B46 1998
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Call Number: Reference ML100 .N48 2001
Oxford Dictionary of Dance
Call Number: Reference GV 1585 .C73 2000
International Dictionary of Ballet
Call Number: Reference GV 1585 .I57 1993

Online Encyclopedias

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Dictionary of Dance
Oxford Companion to the American Musical
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
International Encyclopedia of Dance
Sage e-Reference
Gale Virtual Reference
•American Folk Songs: A Regional Encyclopedia, 2v, 2008

Video Database

This is a video database in which you can watch various dances.

Dance in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Streaming videos of 20th century dance performances & documentaries on dance and dance training. Limited to 3 concurrent users.

Reference online

Here are some excellent online reference resources you can access from the Dixie State College Library Article Database page.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost): A scholarly, multi-disciplinary, database; with full text coverage of 4600 journals in a range of subjects. This database is a good starting place for almost any topic search.

Art Full Text (WilsonWeb): Full text coverage from the Wilson database of periodicals and journals of articles on art, architecture and archaeology throughout the world.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index (Web of Science): Citation index that provides consolidated searching of a social science citation index, art and humanities citation index and multi disciplinary databases—may be searched by author, title, subject, and topic. These are citations of usage, not full text and will be useful primarily to upper division students and faculty doing research.


JSTOR: A scholarly journal archive that provides image and full text access to archival (more than 5 years old) scholarly journals in a wide variety of subject areas.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost): Multidisciplinary database designed for public libraries that covers virtually every subject area of general interest. Provides the full text of nearly 500 books, 164,400 primary source documents, and 1,700 other general reference publications as well as a large image collection of photos, maps and flags.

Project MUSE: Provides full-text access to a selection of humanities and social sciences journals.

ProQuest Newsstand: Full-text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as the New York Times and the Village Voice, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier): Extensive database of Elsevier journals in a wide range of subjects. Excellent searching capabilities and full text access. An excellent resource for authoritative information in many subject disciplines.