Artistic and Literary Resources - IAH 221C - Schweitzer - LibGuides at Michigan State University Libraries

Visual Arts

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
ARTstor is a digital image database containing over 1 million images. Images are grouped into collections and represent the canon of art history (as defined by major art history survey texts) as well as specialized collections such as the MoMA Architecture and Design Collection and the Huntington Archive of Asian Art.

Google Images
A good place to start for ideas about and examples of visual arts.

Art Full Text with Art Index Retrospective This link opens in a new window
Articles about visual art and artistic works (including video and television).

Music and Video

MSU Libraries ROVI Media Collection
Thousands of music CDs and videos.

Kanopy Films This link opens in a new window
Watch over 30,000 Documentaries, Classic and Indie Films.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Swank licenses and distributes feature film content to non-theatrical markets including U.S. colleges and universities.

Other Streaming Video Resources
See the right-hand column on the Media page for a long list of streaming video sources.
Film Review Sources

Streaming Music

American Song (streaming music) This link opens in a new window American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. This release includes 728 albums -- more than 12,103 tracks.
Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall This link opens in a new window Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall live-broadcasts approximately 40 concerts every season, while providing access to hundreds of archived performances dating back to 1966. Also included are numerous documentaries and interviews, accessible on virtually any device in high definition format.
Some parts of site require free personal account.
Classical Music Library (streaming music) This link opens in a new window Classical Music Library includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (eg Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
Contemporary World Music (streaming music) This link opens in a new window Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. This release includes 1,082 albums, equalling 14,235 tracks, growing regularly.
Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings This link opens in a new window Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings is comprised of over 60 field collections from ethnomusicologists dating from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. This resource also features material from the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archive relating to prominent ethnomusicologist Robert Garfias. The audio recordings, videos, field notebooks and journals in this resource document musical traditions and how music interacts with different societies and cultures all over the globe. There are recordings from Alaska to the Pacific Islands, West Africa to Indonesia, including religious music, secular music, celebrations and funerals. There are interviews with musicians, slides and photographs of field sites and photographs of instruments being played and in isolation.
Jazz Music Library (streaming music) This link opens in a new window Music Online: Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
medici.tv This link opens in a new window Online collection of classical music videos.
Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window This resource provides access to more than 600 full-length Met performances, including HD videos from the Met's Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, telecasts from the 1970's, '80's, and '90's, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1935.
Music Online (streaming music) This link opens in a new window Cross-searchable interface for multiple streaming music products from Alexander Street Press: African American Song American Song Classical Music Library Contemporary World Music Jazz Music Library Smithsonian Global Sound
Naxos Music Library (streaming music) This link opens in a new window Library of classical music. Mobile app: 1.Log into NML on a computer and sign up on the institution Playlist Page. 2. After completing the Sign Up Form, you will receive an email. Complete the registration process by clicking the activation link in that email. 3. Download the app from your respective store – App Store for iOS and Google Play for Android devices. 4. Log in with your email address and password that you just created.
Smithsonian Global Sound (streaming music) This link opens in a new window Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Literature

Search the MSU Library Catalog by book title
If you already have the name of a book and would like to find a copy of it, start by searching the library catalog.

Literature Online (LION) This link opens in a new window
Literature Online (LION) contains a full library of up-to-date, fully searchable criticism and reference sources in addition to the full text of poetry, drama, and prose fiction from the seventh century to the present day. Contemporary criticism is available through the full text of 120 current literature journals that can be accessed through the literary index, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), which contains over 880,000 records of literary criticism from 1920 to current.
Gale Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Literature Resource Center with Complete Scribner Writers and Twayne's Authors Series provides direct access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from all ages and literary disciplines in a single Internet-searchable service. Its resources cover more than 90,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists and other writers, with additional in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most studied authors.

IAH 221C - Schweitzer: Artistic and Literary Resources

Where to Start: Discovering Artistic and Literary Materials

Visual Arts

Music and Video

Streaming Music

Literature

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IAH 221C - Schweitzer: Artistic and Literary Resources

Where to Start: Discovering Artistic and Literary Materials

Visual Arts

Music and Video

Streaming Music

Literature