Online Streaming Video Sites with Restricted Access
There are many places on the web to find videos of all types of music performances. The few listed below, however, are licensed to Ohio University and are not available from the usual search engine results.
VAST: Academic Video OnlineA huge collection of videos on all subjects, including Music and Dance. You can register with VAST, and then create clips and playlists as needed for your projects.- Digital Resource Commons (OhioLINK)OhioLINK statewide digital resource, a unique collection of digital items held by OhioLINK libraries. This includes streaming Educational and Instructional Videos on a variety of topics and disciplines.
- On The Boards TVHigh-quality videos of full-length performances by some of today’s most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization.
Ken Burns' Jazz Series
We have this 10-episode series available via streaming video from Alexander Street Press and VAST: Academic Video Online:
- Gumbo
- The Gift
- Our Language
- The True Welcome
- Swing, Pure Pleasure
- Swing, the Velocity of Celebration
- Dedicated to Chaos
- Risk
- The Adventure
- A Masterpiece by Midnight
The Music and Dance Library has this series on video cassette. The Lancaster and Zanesville campuses have the DVD version, which you can request by using the 
button.
VAST: Academic Video Online (see above) has more than 100 additional films on the subject of Jazz.