Keywords to Search:Social Dances: Swing, Jitterbug, Boogie Woogie, Jive, Rumba and Conga. Other important dance influences: The Nicholas Brothers, Dance Marathons, Dancehalls of NYC (Savoy and Cotton Club). Music: Jazz and Swing
Books about dance and US popular culture. Titles Include:
American Culture in the 1930s, American Culture in the 1940s, American Dance, Dancing in Your Head, Dancing Many Drums, Swing Dance, Swing to Bop, The History of Western Dance
Comprehensive: cross-search all our ProQuest databases at once. It contains access to historical and current newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journal articles.
This resource is a massive compendium of music scholarship that includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Private collection of primary sources from Richard Powers. There are 108 primary sources divided into three categories: dance manuals, single dance descriptions and orchestrated dance music.
Useful news, archival information, photos, graphics, audio, and video on dance topics published in The New York Times. All students have access to free accounts through the library.
