Spence School Library: Dance History: Pearl Primus

Background Research

Gale in Context: U.S. History
Provides background information on U.S. history, covering the major events and people.
Encyclopedia Britannica Academic
Includes Encyclopedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools.

ProQuest Ebook Central
A wide selection of authoritative, scholarly electronic books available through a easy to use platform with a variety of online and offline reading options.

Proquest Comprehensive
Comprehensive: cross-search all our ProQuest databases at once. It contains access to historical and current newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journal articles. Subject Areas: Arts & Humanities, Business, General Research, Health Sciences & Nursing, Literature, News & Issues, Science & Technology, Social Sciences
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to full-text journal articles in the arts, sciences, humanities and social sciences. While you won’t find current journal articles, you will find articles dating from 3-5 years ago to many decades ago.

Accelerated Motion: Towards a New Dance Literacy in America
"A series of dynamic and interactive educational materials aimed at fostering a multidisciplinary understanding of how movement ideas are enacted in various aspects of American culture."
Pearl Primus: Spirituals
Video. A dancer, choreographer, and proselytizer for African dance, Pearl Primus (1919-1994) trained at the New Dance Group and worked with Asadata Dafora.
Dances of Sorrow, Dances of Hope : The work of Pearl Primus finds a natural place in a special program of historic modern dances for women. Primus’ 1943 work ‘Strange Fruit’ leaped over the boundaries of what was then considered ‘black dance’
Los Angeles Time article

Pearl Primus Videos
Hosted on Numeridanse.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
"Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive is an ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today."
YouTube
The leader in online video and premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide.

Artstor
Artstor is a digital library of more than one million high-quality images in arts and architecture, the social sciences and the humanities. The resource offers tools that can be used to view present and manage images. Register for a free account to get the most out of ARTstor.