Research Subject Guides: Streaming Media: Art, Design, Theater and Music

Art & Design

Academic Video Online: Premium
Many films include closed captions and searchable transcripts.

Docuseek 2 The subject list links to a wide range of topics.

Films on Demand
Films include closed captions and transcripts.
The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
This is the nation's largest video African American oral history collection. It includes transcribed interviews with 2691 history makers, including topics germane to the arts.
Kanopy
Films include closed captions.

If you live in the Boston area and wish to use Kanopy outside of academic use, the Boston Public Library (BPL)offers Kanopy for free, and one can watch 4 films a month. First obtain and e card: https://www.bpl.org/ecard/. Here is more BPL Kanopy-related info. https://www.bpl.org/faq/online-resources/#kanopy
LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
Over 1500 on-demand courses on hundreds of subject areas, including office productivity, audio, video, and web software. Includes captions and transcripts.

On Film Platform

The Music of Strangers, about Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble.

Music

Academic Video Online: Premium (Video)
Many films include closed captions and searchable transcripts.

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new window
Diverse American recorded music, from folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, available for streaming.

The HistoryMakers Digital Archive
This is the nation's largest video African American oral history collection. It includes transcribed interviews with 2691 history makers, including musicians.
Kanopy (Video)
Films include closed captions.
Music Online (Audio and Video)
Content spans all time periods, featuring many artists, composers, choreographers and ensembles. manual films include closed captions and searchable transcripts. Includes the following streaming collections, which can be accessed individually:
Music Online: American Music This is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes 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.
Music Online: Classical Music Library
Music Online: Contemporary World Music Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains 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.
Music Online: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Provides access to scholarly content, images, and the nine-volume Garland Encyclopedia of World Music CD Collection. Search and browse through a range of genres and indexes, and utilize playlist features.
Music Online: Jazz Music Library (Audio)
A comprehensive audio collection of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Music Online: Popular Music Library Contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound For Libraries (Audio)
Encompasses an international music audio archives grounded in the mission of the Smithsonian's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
Naxos Music Library (Audio)
Emphasizes classical audio recordings, but also includes world music, jazz, folk, and more.

NU Library's Digital Repository Service

Archives' WFNX On Demand Collection
WFNX was an alternative rock radio station in Boston that operated as a commercial broadcast radio station from 1983 until July 24, 2012, and as an internet-only stream from October 30, 2012 to March 19, 2013.
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WFNX was owned by the Phoenix Media/Communications Group and was promoted as the broadcast cousin of the Boston Phoenix, the Boston area's former alternative media newspaper. The station ceased broadcast following the shutting down of the Boston Phoenix the previous week.
Indexical Design Symposium Videos
Recorded presentations from a CAMD-sponsored symposium on Indexical Design.
Snell Library Recording Studios Showcase
A curated collection of student performances recorded in the Studios.

Theater

Digital Theatre+ offers video of full-length performances from the English stage, including Shakespeare, modern dramas, musicals, and adaptations, as well as supplementary material such as interviews, behind-the-scenes documentaries, and study guides. Google Chrome is the preferred browser for Digital Theatre+.