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Music Resources

Music & Performing Arts (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window
Combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles to provide an unparalleled learning environment for the teaching of music.
Be sure to investigate the tabs!
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, this database also includes articles from The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the landmark Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
Includes information on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works.

"Wild Card" Topics for Ms. Bower's Passport Project

You will be able to find required information in the databases on this page.

Start with Sirs Renaissance to find contemporary information on the arts & humanities (art, music, film/tv). ArtStor provides high resolution images of artwork.

Celebrations and other lifestyle information is readily available in Culturegrams, as is information on government and history.

Search Global Issues in Context for international current events.

Culture / The Humanities

Culturegrams This link opens in a new window
Provides information on food (recipes!), celebrations, language, family life, etc. Many have video interviews. Provides an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Provides statistics and other primary sources. Details on the government of each nation.

Be sure to select the World Edition.
Provides an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.

Media

Classroom Video on Demand This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive (9,000+) collection of streaming video across the curricular content areas. Includes documentaries, filmed performances, interviews and archival newsreels.
Searchable by fully annotated segments.

GVRL Cultural /Historical Background

The GVRL TITLES LISTED BELOW WILL HELP YOUR RESEARCH.
Do not click on the covers to access individually.
Instead, search the database efficiently:

Click on GVRL. Select the ADVANCED SEARCH option in the top tool bar.
Enter your keyword in the 1st search field.
Enter the title of a book or series in the 2nd field and change the drop-down to "Publication Title."

Keyword searching in the database is much more effective than browsing the contents of individual books.

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History / Politics

Global Issues in Context (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
World History in Context (GALE) This link opens in a new window
Merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.