SOC 334: Consumer Culture: Finding Media Sources

Contemporary classical music in streaming audio from New World Records, Composers Recordings Inc., and other labels

Classical and world music in streaming audio. Comprehensive, including most of the classical repertoire—over one million tracks from Naxos, Chandos, EMI, Nonesuch, and hundreds of other labels. Free mobile app available.

This resource allows a limited number of simultaneous users. Please log out via the log-out button at the top left of the screen when you are finished.

Over 3000 educational films and documentaries on history, music, and dance.

Large streaming video collection, including feature films and documentaries from PBS, BBC, Criterion, and more.

Please see this list of films Wellesley is currently licensing from Kanopy for title information.
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Wellesley College students are also able to use Kanopy via the Wellesley Free Library in town. Students automatically have library cards there and are able to download six films a month. To activate your account, follow these instructions:

1. Call the Wellesley Free Library at 781-235-1610 ext. 1104 during their open hours.


2. Verify your name, Wellesley College mailing address, and college e-mail.


3. They will provide you with your card number and PIN.


4. Download and install the app, available for phones and tablets (you can also watch on a computer at wellesleylib.kanopy.com).


5. Input your card number and PIN.

Wellesley College staff and faculty also are able to use Kanopy via the Wellesley Free Library. If you are not already a patron there, you can get a temporary card online at wellesleyfreelibrary.org/library-card-application.

Online video of operas in performance, also documentaries and interviews. Create your own playlists and video clips.

Digitized images of art, architecture, and other forms of visual culture from around the world, from museums, archaeology, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference works, dating from B.C.E. to present.

Requires creation of an Artstor account to download images. This account also grants you off-campus access for 60 days. If your account is inactivated or you need to create an account, make sure to use a library link (such as this one) to get to Artstor so that you will be recognized as a Wellesley user.

Fulltext of Vogue Magazine from 1892 to the present in high-resolution color page images.

Books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.

Full text of six leading women's magazines of the late 19th-20th century: Better Homes and Gardens; Chatelaine; Good Housekeeping; Ladies' Home Journal; Parents; and Redbook.

The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form, including texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.