Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers 1690-1783

Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers 1690-1783. 1690-1783. This database can be accessed only from inside the Music/Media Library. Ask for assistance at the Music/Media Desk.
This database provides access to 17th and 18th-century American sources for research in the performing arts. The database indexes all references to music, dance, theater, and poetry in American newspapers from the earliest extant copy through the end of the Revolutionary War and includes those in the French and German languages. Nearly 60,000 newspaper issues, including supplements, extra ordinaries, and postscripts, have been carefully read for all references, allusions, metaphors, song lyrics,woodcut illustrations, and all other ways in which the performing arts were to the attention of eighteenth-century Americans through the reading of newspapers can be found in the database.