Videos Of African And African Related Performance

Video is hot! Announcing a unique & timely reference tool - an informative, international guide to videos that feature African & African-related performance, including music, dance, drama, rituals, oral tradition, storytelling, games, healing practices, carnivals, pageantry, work activities, athletic performance, folklore & more. Essential for university, museum, school, & public libraries, & for Africanists, people of African descent, & all those interested in the myriad arts & disciplines covered. Musicians & dancers will find abundant material on: Jazz, Blues, Steel Pan, Calypso, Gospel, Samba, Rap, Reggae, & other forms. Students of comparative religions will see connections between belief systems of Africa, Brazil & the Caribbean (Voodoo, Candomble, Santeria). Health workers will be fascinated to learn of traditional African & New World Healing methods. Contains over 1,000 annotated entries, an index of distributors & a comprehensive Subject Index. More than 60, countries represented. Includes documentaries, plus ethnographic, entertainment, & children's videos. Carol Lems-Dworkin is an Africanist, musicologist, & author of the internationally acclaimed, AFRICAN MUSIC: A PAN-AFRICAN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY (ISBN 0-905450-91-4) & AFRICA IN SCOTT JOPLIN'S MUSIC (ISBN 0-9637048-0-X). To order, contact Carol Lems-Dworkin Publishers, Box 1646, Evanston, IL 60204-1646. Only U.S. currency accepted, shipping & handling included. Telephone 847-869-4235, FAX: 847-869-4239.

Get the most out of your reference information systems and technology! Reference Services and Media meets the information challenges that overwhelm and assist us today with computerization, electronics, and telecommunications changes in the reference services of our libraries. As a professional in the library science field, you will discover innovative theories and researched solutions on many technology problems and challenges such as formatting and compatibility, training of reference professionals and library users, costs, and information have and have nots. With the year 2000 and beyond upon us, emerging technologies afford tremendous opportunities for reference librarians and for improved and enhanced public access to information. In Reference Services and Media you will learn about planning for staffing, troubleshooting fund-raising, and budget developing to support the use of information technologies. You will also examine the impact new media has on academic libraries, specifically video and movie clips that are transferred over intranets and internets and their opportunities and legal implications. In Reference Services and Media you will also explore: desktop conferencing and web access for reference services versus personalized contact desktop conferencing with personal computers in remote areas for reference service assistance positive and negative aspects of using each technology in reference use instruction creative methods for procuring funding for an electronic information literary instruction classroom providing a digital library for a state library network raising confidence levels of public service librarians in using electronic resources to answer reference questions Reference Services and Media includes case studies, tables, and an annotated bibliography that serves as a librarian's media reference toolkit, making it essential for effective media reference work. An excellent source for the reference librarian, Reference Services and Media will assist you in adopting and incorporating new information technologies for the present and future.

Published in dual print and electronic formats, this is a new edition of a much acclaimed reference source that brings together a wide range of sources of information in the African studies field, covering both print and electronic sources. It evaluates the best online resources, the major general reference tools in print format, current bibliographies and indexing services, biographical, cartographic, statistical and economic resources, as well as film and video resources. Additionally, there are separate sections on African studies library collections and repositories throughout the world, a directory of over 250 African studies journals; listings of news sources, profiles of publishers active in the African studies field, dealers and distributors of African studies materials, African studies societies and associations, major African and international organizations, donor agencies and foundations, awards and prizes in African studies, electronic mailing lists and discussion forums, and more.

Vol. 1- , spring 1970- , include "A Bibliography of American doctoral dissertations on African literature," compiled by Nancy J. Schmidt.

Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians. The introductory chapter includes a comprehensive list of bibliographical terms with definitions; bibliographic terms in German, French, and Italian; and the plan of the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal music classification systems. Integrating helpful commentary to instruct the reader on the scope and usefulness of specific items, this updated and expanded edition accounts for the rapid growth in new editions of standard works, in fields such as ethnomusicology, performance practice, women in music, popular music, education, business, and music technology. These enhancements to its already extensive bibliographies ensures that the Sourcebook will continue to be an indispensable reference for years to come.

This is an freely accessible version that has not been updated since July 2009. So some links will not work.