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Black Studies Center (BSC)
The Black Studies Center contains scholarly essays, periodicals, historical newspaper articles and reference books on Black Studies. It combines resources for research and teaching in Black Studies, including The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Black Studies Periodicals Database (formerly IIBP), Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975.
African American Music Reference
African American Music Reference provides full-text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is expanding to include coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Oxford Music Online
Concurrent user limit: 11
Oxford Music Online offers users the ability to access and cross-search several works, including: Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music (Second Edition Revised). Sources can be searched independently or together.
Music & Performing Arts
Music & Performing Arts (formerly Music Online) combines all of Temple's Alexander Street Press music resources: streaming audio, video, scores, and reference material. This includes the following resources: African American Music, African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, Jazz Music Library, Opera in Video, Smithsonian Global Sound.

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