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Lawrence
High School Library
Lawrence, Kansas
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Music,
Movies and Theater
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All
Movie Guide
http://www.allmovie.com/ |
AltaVista
Image Search
http://www.altavista.com/image
Looking for...the perfect picture? An audio clip? a movie preview?
Then Photo and Media Finder can help. Enter a keyword and AltaVista
provides thumbnail results that link to the photo or art image. |
America
at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awlhtml/awlhome.html
Library of Congress. American Memory collection. Work, school, and
leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured
in this presentation of 150 motion pictures, 88 of which are digitized
for the first time. |
American
Film Institute
http://www.afi.com/
American Film Institute is dedicated to advancing and preserving
the art of the moving image. |
The
Greatest Films
http://www.filmsite.org/
This website contains interpretive, descriptive review commentary
and historical background, and hundreds of colorful, vintage film
posters for some of the best Hollywood and American classic films
in the last century. |
The
Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com/
The Internet Movie Database is part of the Amazon.com group
of companies. It provides useful movie information. It covers over
170,479 titles. |
The
Official Academy Awards® Database. Reviewed: 13 February
2005
http://www.oscars.org/awardsdatabase/index.html
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
The Academy Awards® Database is a one-stop source of information
about the Academy Awards. Intended for all users, the database contains
a plethora of information from the first Academy Awards® in
1927/28 to the present. Users can search one of three search screens:
Basic, Advanced and Statistical. The Basic screen allows searching
by film title, nominee, over 40 award categories, song title, winners
only, and award year. The results can be displayed in either chronological
or alphabetical order. The Advanced screen allows Boolean searching
and contains additional searchable fields. The currently updated
award statistics page is organized by subject category. Before the
current year's Oscar® winners are announced, the web site provides
a link to Oscar®.com where current year nominees in all categories
are listed.
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2005
RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS
American Library Association |
Silent
Movies.com
http://www.silent-movies.com/
Silent films are an important part of film history. Silent-film
enthusiast Robert Pearson has assembled information on many of the
Silent Movie stars, such as Vilma Banky, who were famous in the
early 20th Century. Viewers can see old photos of stars and, in
some cases, view downloadable QuickTime movie clips. –The Library
Journal |
StartSpot
Network
http://www.startspot.com/.
StartSpot MediaWorks, Inc. Reviewed June 2003.
The StartSpot Network is a family of "Spot" sites, each
serving as an indepth web portal for its category by guiding users
to a wealth of outstanding resources which have been selected by
an editorial team. Current spots include BookSpot, CinemaSpot, EmploymentSpot,
GovernmentSpot, GenealogySpot, HomeworkSpot, HeadlineSpot, LibrarySpot,
MuseumSpot, and TripSpot. Of particular note are LibrarySpot and
BookSpot LibrarySpot provides links to the web pages of public,
K-12, academic, and other specialized libraries and a reference
desk linking to reference works of all types. The site also links
to sources of speeches, full-text articles, library associations,
conferences and jobs, as well as some categories overlapping in
part with BookSpot, such as sources of literary criticism. Among
the offerings of BookSpot are links to best seller lists, pre-pub
alerts, book club titles and read-a! likes as well as book reviews,
book awards, poetry, and links to full text classics. Although these
sites do carry advertising, in comparison with many such sites,
their lack of annoying pop-up-boxes greatly increases their appeal
and makes them outstanding starting points for anyone seeking to
quickly and easily find first-rate information on the Web.
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2003
Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) of the reference and User
Services Association (RUSA) of American Library Association |
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All
Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/ |
America's
Jazz Heritage
http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/
America's Jazz Heritage is a ten-year initiative to research,
preserve, and present the history of jazz through exhibitions, performances,
recordings, radio, publications, and educational programs at the
Smithsonian and across the nation. |
Aaron
Copland Collection 1900-1900
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html
The inaugural online presentation of the Aaron Copland Collection
at the Library of Congress celebrates the centennial of the birth
of the American composer Aaron Copland (1900-1990) |
Band
Music from the Civil War
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwmhtml/cwmhome.html
Band Music from the Civil War Era makes available examples of a
brilliant style of brass band music that flourished in the 1850s
in the United States and remained popular through the nineteenth
century. Bands of this kind served in the armies of both the North
and the South during the Civil War. |
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Charts
All Over the World
http://www.lanet.lv/misc/charts/
KNOW WHAT'S HOT: You can search through more than 800 WWW pages
around the world with updated music charts! Just enter name of
artist and/or title to find out where it is charted. A Latvian
Web surfer has compiled a list of global hit charts that shows
what DJs are spinning from Albania to Singapore.
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Classical
Composers
http://www.gmn.com/composers/
This site provides biographical information of composers (from The
Grove Concise Dictionary of Music). You also can listen to music
by the composer. |
Electronic
Musical Instrument 1870 – 1990
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/
120 Years of Electronic Music. This site charts the development
of electronic musical instruments from 1870 to 1990. For the purposes
of this project electronic musical instruments are defined as instruments
that synthesise sounds from an electronic source. |
Essentials
of Music
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
Whether you're a casual listener or a serious music student, here's
the site for basic information about classical music. |
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Jazz
in America
http://www.jazzinamerica.org/home.asp
Jazz is recognized around the world for its rich cultural heritage
rooted in the African-American experience. Most students graduate
from high school with little knowledge of the history or importance
of jazz. In order to provide an ongoing education about jazz for
our nation’s students, the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
has developed Jazz in America, the new internet-based jazz curriculum
for social studies, American history, and music classes in the
United States.
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Leonard
Bernstein
http://www.leonardbernstein.com/
A wonderful site—audio clips, photographs, letters and history
of Leonard Bernstein. |
Mojam
http://www.mojam.com/ |
Poetry
and Music of the War Between the States
http://www.civilwarpoetry.org/
If you want to understand the emotions and thoughts of the men who
fought in the Civil War and the people who waited for them to come
home, read the poetry and music written before, during and after
the war. |
Popular
Songs in American History
http://www.contemplator.com/america/index.html
American folk and traditional music with lyrics, midi files, tune
information and history behind the folksongs and ballads. Folksongs
are arranged by time period. |
The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
http://www.rockhall.com/
A history of rock and roll. |
Rock
and Roll Museum for Teachers
http://www.rockhall.com/programs/forteachers.asp?id=582
The Museum offers a variety of resource materials to educators,
free upon request. Topics currently include: Celebrating American’s
Soul 1959-1971).-Educators’ Guide to Hip-Hop.-The Electric
Guitar, Its Makers and Its Players.-A Joyful Noise: Celebrating
Rock’s Gospel Roots (1871 1946). |
Rockmine:
The Internet's Largest Rock Music Resource
http://www.rockmine.music.co.uk/Rockmn.html
A web site for music lovers. |
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Backstage
Betty: Theatre Quiz
http://channons.com/betty
This is fun. A quiz for performers about performing. |
Internet
Broadway Database
http://www.ibdb.com
League of American Theaters and Producers, Inc. Reviewed 22 Feb.
2002.
According to the IBDB Web site, this resource offers a comprehensive
database of shows produced on Broadway [dating from the 1700's to
the present], including all title page [program] information about
each production. IBDB also offers historical information about theaters
and various statistics and fun facts related to Broadway. Simple
search allows you to search by show, people/organization, theatre,
and season while advanced search allows many more options including
function (director, actor, playwright, etc.), gender, opening and
closing dates, character name and more. From serious research to
more trivial pursuits, the IBDB is a excellent source for Broadway
production information.
Best Free Reference Web Sites 2002
Fourth Annual List
RUSA Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS)
American Library Association |
Playbill
on Line
http://www.playbill.com/index.phpwww.playbill.com
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