Word on the Street

The July issue of Music Media Monthly is live. A monthly publication edited by Rick Anderson, this blog brings you reviews of the best recordings, books, videos, and Web sites for music lovers.

Editor Rick Anderson writes: "You thought July was hot enough already? Well, you haven’t experienced hot until you’ve checked out the offerings in this month’s issue of Music Media Monthly. Break out the sunblock, because Anne Shelley is filling you in on a brilliant Aaron Copland documentary and an equally glorious video examination of the art of the thematic variation (as performed by Danie Barenboim, Andras Schiff and Yefim Bronfman). Steve Dankner discusses a blistering new book on Liszt’s transcriptions and a collection of studies on Ravel.
Gene Hyde brings us word of a steaming-hot website for drummers and lovers of drumming in all musical genres. And I discuss several blazingly
great new releases from such tropical climes as Jamaica (Roy Ellis), North Carolina (Don Dixon and Marti Jones), er, New York (Paul Motian),
and, um, Germany (Echo Beach). Put on your hippest sunglasses, break out your most styling parasol, and enjoy! Read it here.

New music content added

This was a big week for our music products: we've added a lot of content to four different collections!

• 1,837 pages of content have been added to Classical Music Reference Library, representing four titles from Princeton University Press (if this month's issue of Music Media Monthly got you in a Schoenberg mood, you're in luck: one of those titles is Schoenberg and His World).
• 28 videos have been added to Dance in Video, with styles ranging from baroque to hip-hop. Dance in Video now contains 275 hours of video from 314 different titles.
• 18 new videos have been added to Opera in Video, including a number of performances from the Royal Opera House and several documentaries. The collection now contains 174 videos spanning 488 hours. 
• The biggest news of all: Classical Scores Library is now complete! The new content added to the collection (from composers like Girolamo Frescobaldi, Antonio Vivaldi, and Diana Blom) puts it at 400,000 pages of sheet music.

For more information about any of our music and performing arts collections, or to request a free trial or price quote for your library, email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

New literature from around the world

In February, over 20,000 pages of new content was uploaded to Caribbean Literature, South and Southeast Asian Literature, Latin American Women Writers, and Black Women Writers. These four collections are part of the cross-searchable Alexander Street Literature, which currently contains over 250,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, and novels.

Highlights in the newly added literature include:

Caribbean Literature

• The Games Were Coming by Michael Anthony (Trinidad)
• Busha's Mistress by Cyrus Francis Perkins (Jamaica)
• La Peregrinacion de Bayoan by Eugenio Maria de Hostos (Puerto Rico)

South and Southeast Asian Literature

• The Scarecrow and the Ghost and Under Orion by Keki N. Daruwalla (India/Pakistan)
• Bones by Mahadai Das (India/Guyana)
• Handwriting: Poems by Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka)
• Jaya Ganga: In Search of the River Goddess by Vijay Singh (India)
• Tomorrow and Other Poems by Lhasang Tsering (Nepal/Tibet)

Latin American Women Writers

• Tres palabras y una mujer . . . by Lucila Palacios (Venezuela)
• Rito Pagão by Rosalina Coelho Lisboa (Brazil)

Black Women Writers

• A Brave and Startling Truth by Maya Angelou (United States)
• Drawn in Colour by Noni Jabavu (South Africa)
• Women Writing Africa: The Northern Region (v. 4) by various authors. The entire Women Writing Africa set is now available in Black Women Writers.

For more information on these individual literature collections, or the Alexander Street Literature package, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com. Free trials and price quotes are available to libraries upon request.