TRIAL through March 3, 2024 Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound, Volume II provides an extensive virtual encyclopedia of unique American folk, blues, soul, jazz, and protest songs, as well as a broad range of world music.
In addition to academic support and documentary films, these two streaming platforms, available to the Wesleyan community, offer current popular domestic and international films, as well as classic Hollywood films, KanopySubscription access to over 9000 films, including The Criterion collection SwankAccess to the 1000 most-requested feature films in Swank’s collection from the largest movie studios. … Read more
TRIAL through Jan. 6, 2024 Sessional papers of the British House of Commons and the 19th Century House of Lords. It includes detailed primary source for the history of Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. It covers working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy. Access this resource … Read more
Music of Central Asia Kazakh songs and instrumental tunes Concert by students of the Central Asian Music Ensemble tutorial taught by Assistant Professor of Music Saida Daukeyeva and visiting artists from Kazakhstan, Raushan Orazbaeva, Rüstem Nurkenov, and Zhaina Zharmukhametova Friday, December 1, 2023, 12:30-1:30 pmSmith Room, Olin LibraryFREE
Please join us for a lunch-time listening party this coming Monday, November 13th at 12:10 PM to mark the beginning of Finding the Spirit of Inanga: A Gallery of African Musical Instruments, a project curated by music graduate student Chance Kinyange. A collaborative effort between Providence, RI-based PVD World Music Institute and Wesleyan’s World Music … Read more
TRIAL through Dec 6, 2023 Early printed books in Arabic script (1475-1900) covering religion, law, science, mathematics, astrology, alchemy, medicine, geography, travel, history, chronicles, and literature. Including European translations of Arabic works and Arabic translations of European works. Access this resource through the A-Z Database or here.
Friday, October 27, 2023 — 3:00pm Smith Reading Room, 1st floor Olin Library In this performance-lecture, Mohammad Geldi Geldi Nejad MA’23, an acclaimed indigenous performer and scholar of Turkmen music, will introduce and perform traditional instrumental pieces and songs. He will also talk about his fieldwork experiences with Turkmen music masters in northeast Iran in … Read more
TRIAL through Nov.1, 2023 Contains facsimile images of a range of literary manuscripts — including letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings, and other materials — from roughly 1120 to 1660. This trial is an addition to the library’s access to Gale’s British Literary Manuscripts Online: c1660-1900, so you will see results for both subcollections … Read more
Two performances October 12, 2023 @ 7:30pm and ongoing exhibit **between systems and grounds: Chapter Three** Second Floor Balcony, Olin Library — FREE! — 7:30 to 9:30pm between systems and grounds is a collaborative, durational performance and installation project by Professor of Music Paula Matthusen and visual artist Olivia Valentine that creates a feedback loop … Read more
TRIAL through Dec 31. 2023To access create account using your Wesleyan email address.Select any collection on the Floor Plan and then any model. At top click on “To view the interactive 3D model, please login” Virtual Museum is a collection of over 750 interactive 3D models of classical sculpture digitized from museums across the US … Read more
