Word on the Street

Online Jazz Festival playlist winners

The quality and quantity of playlists created during the Online Jazz Music Festival was tremendous, and we urge everyone with a Jazz Music Library subscription to check out the new additions. It was difficult selecting a winner for our playlist competition, so we chose two!

Our two winners have earned their libraries free, one-year subscriptions to the new Jazz Music Library.

• Phillipa McKeown-Green - Auckland University for for the playlist "Avant Garde and Beyond"
• Heather Buffington - Kings College London for the playlist "Freedom Songs"

Congratulations to our winners and their libraries, and thanks to everyone that created and submitted a playlist.

For more information on Jazz Music Library, visit our Web site or contact us.

Online Jazz Festival quiz winners

Our first annual Online Jazz Music Festival was a hit, thanks to the thousands of visitors that attended. As promised, we're sending a copy of The Very Best of Prestige Records from Concord Music Group to the winners of our online jazz quiz competition. The 2009 quiz winners are:

• Sabrina Celi
• John Robertson
• Allan Reyes
• Anne Scott
• Rod Cannon

We thank everyone that participated in our quiz competition. Check back here tomorrow when we announce the winner of our Jazz Music Library playlist competition.

You're invited to Alexander Street's Online Jazz Music Festival

Join us at the first annual Alexander Street Online Jazz Music Festival for great music, free downloads, interviews, videos, quizzes, coupons, contests and prizes. The festival begins today and runs through Thursday, May 14th.

Without leaving your desk you can listed to more than 18,000 jazz recording in streaming audio from our new online collection, Jazz Music Library. Create a playlist for class use or just for fun, and send us your playlist's permanent URL. You could win a free, one-year subscription to Jazz Music Library for your library.

Enter the festival at http://alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm and get free access to Jazz Music Library for the duration of the festival. And don't forget to take our quizzes and submit your playlists for a chance to win a prize.

The Romantic Era Redefined is live!

Through a partnership with London-based publisher Pickering & Chatto, students and scholars have access to important primary texts for the study of Romantic-era literature and social history—with more than 87,000 pages of Pickering & Chatto's esteemed critical editions. The collection also includes additional content from other publishers, archives, the leading Romanticism journal, The Wordsworth Circle, and other sources never-before-available online. Besides the literature—poetry, novels, short fiction, and drama—there are letters, diaries, conduct literature, speeches, travel narratives, political writings, philosophical works, theological and sociological writings, and more. Featuring work from writers in Britain, the British Empire, and North America, the collection is particularly strong in its coverage of the Romantic Era's "second generation," which spans the years from 1800 to 1830. The Romantic Era Redefined brings something distinctly new to academic study, with access to overlooked and inaccessible important works.

To request a price quote or a free trial for your library, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com. More information about The Romantic Era Redefined can be found on our Web site.