Discover and access a wealth of information and insights across various academic disciplines. The Kern County Library now offers Alexander Street Press, a division of ProQuest, which provides an array of curated, discipline-focused primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media designed to enhance learning and research. With a strong commitment to making previously inaccessible content available, Alexander Street Press collaborates with scholars, librarians, and archives to ensure the highest academic standards, securing copyrights, digitizing materials, and meticulously indexing them. Their award-winning online platform hosts an extensive range of resources, including a vast library of streaming video, music, and dance performances, as well as unique collections such as full-text, authorized databases of in-copyright film scripts and underground comics.
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Music Online: The Quest TV Collection, co-created by Quincy Jones & Reza Ackbaraly, offers valuable materials for music history and cultural studies through the preservation of diverse live performances, spanning the evolution of jazz and beyond — representing funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, and other eclectic world genres.
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Dance Online: Dance in Video presents an extensive collection of performances, instructional materials, documentaries, and interviews, showcasing high-caliber performances from the greatest dance companies and performers worldwide, spanning from traditional ballet to hip hop, street dance, and modern dance, offering a unique opportunity for to study and analyze the fusion between styles.
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The Broadway On Demand Collection takes viewers from behind the stage to the bright lights of Broadway through masterful plays, musicals, and dance performances, but it also provides a diverse range of unique behind-the-scenes series, documentaries, instructional videos, and more.
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National Theatre Collections provides contemporary video productions, modern reinterpretations of classic all featuring acclaimed actors and directors of the highest caliber along with exclusive behind-the-scenes archival content.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection with high-definition recordings of The Bard’s dramatic canon, featuring the world’s finest Shakespearean actors and directors, along with supplementary teaching materials, the Royal Shakespeare Company Collection helps bring Shakespeare to life in the modern age.
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Theatre in Video offers access to hundreds of the world’s most important plays, documentaries, and instructional materials, as well as interviews with prominent directors, designers, writers, and actors, providing an authentic behind-the-scenes look at various productions.
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Classical Music in Video provide an extensive collection of influential performances and documentaries demonstrating the continuous development of classical music, spanning eras from canonical masters to modern composers.
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Opera in Video offers a curated selection of the world’s most significant opera performances, featuring top artists, conductors, and venues, providing a valuable resource for studying opera’s rich canon.
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PBS Video Collection: A streaming video collection providing an exceptional range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS.
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Music Online: The Quest TV Collection, co-created by Quincy Jones & Reza Ackbaraly, offers valuable materials for music history and cultural studies through the preservation of diverse live performances, spanning the evolution of jazz and beyond — representing funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, and other eclectic world genres.
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Dance Online: Dance in Video presents an extensive collection of performances, instructional materials, documentaries, and interviews, showcasing high-caliber performances from the greatest dance companies and performers worldwide, spanning from traditional ballet to hip hop, street dance, and modern dance, offering a unique opportunity for to study and analyze the fusion between styles.
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The Broadway On Demand Collection takes viewers from behind the stage to the bright lights of Broadway through masterful plays, musicals, and dance performances, but it also provides a diverse range of unique behind-the-scenes series, documentaries, instructional videos, and more.
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National Theatre Collections provides contemporary video productions, modern reinterpretations of classic all featuring acclaimed actors and directors of the highest caliber along with exclusive behind-the-scenes archival content.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection with high-definition recordings of The Bard’s dramatic canon, featuring the world’s finest Shakespearean actors and directors, along with supplementary teaching materials, the Royal Shakespeare Company Collection helps bring Shakespeare to life in the modern age.
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Theatre in Video offers access to hundreds of the world’s most important plays, documentaries, and instructional materials, as well as interviews with prominent directors, designers, writers, and actors, providing an authentic behind-the-scenes look at various productions.
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Classical Music in Video provide an extensive collection of influential performances and documentaries demonstrating the continuous development of classical music, spanning eras from canonical masters to modern composers.
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Opera in Video offers a curated selection of the world’s most significant opera performances, featuring top artists, conductors, and venues, providing a valuable resource for studying opera’s rich canon.
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PBS Video Collection: A streaming video collection providing an exceptional range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS.
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