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Organization Type: Colleges & Universities

Organization URL: https://umd.edu/   

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Title: American College Dance Festival Association (ACDFA)

URL: http://www.acdfa.org/

Collection: Special Collections in Performing Arts

Description: Archived website of the American College Dance Festival Association (ACDFA). The ACDFA, known as the American College Dance Association (ACDA) since 2015, was founded in 1973 to acknowledge and foster the role that colleges had been playing in the development of dance since the 1960s. Originally formed by thirteen charter member colleges and universities, the ACDFA now consists of over 300 member institutions. The ACDFA sponsors eleven regional conferences where colleges and university submit pieces to be adjudicated by nationally recognized dance professionals. The association also sponsors the National Dance Festival, which showcases works selected from all the regional conferences. The ACDFA website includes information about its mission, history, regions, bylaws, policies, leadership, regional conferences, national festivals, membership, newsletters, and resources for dance in higher education.

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Subject:   Performing arts archives Performing arts -- Web archives American College Dance Festival Association -- Web archives Dance festivals -- Web archives

Title: American Bandmasters Association

URL: http://www.americanbandmasters.org/

Collection: Special Collections in Performing Arts

Description: Archived website of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA). The ABA website includes information about its officers, history, governance, objectives, annual reports, annual convention, awards, publications, recordings, and research center. The site also hosts a members-only section.

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Subject:   Performing arts archives Performing arts -- Web archives American Bandmasters Association -- Web archives American Bandmasters Association American Bandmasters Association -- Archives Band directors -- United States Bands (Music) -- United States Conductors (Music) -- United States

Title: American Musical Instrument Society

URL: http://www.amis.org/

Collection: Special Collections in Performing Arts

Description: Archived website of the American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS), an international organization founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods. The Society's international membership includes collectors, curators, historians, performers, instrument makers, conservators, restorers, dealers, teachers, and students. The AMIS website includes information about its organization, meetings, awards, membership, publications, announcements, and resources related to the following: appraisal services, collections of musical instruments, educational programs, instrument making, instrument sites, musical instrument dealers and makers, organizations, and patent numbers and dates.

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Subject:   Performing arts archives Performing arts -- Web archives American Musical Instrument Society -- Web archives

Title: College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA)

URL: http://www.cbdna.org/

Collection: Special Collections in Performing Arts

Description: Archived website of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA). CBDNA first formed as a committee of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), and reorganized as the College Band Directors National Association in 1947. Its stated purpose is to support "the teaching, performance, study and cultivation of music, with particular focus on the wind band medium" ("Statement of Purpose," http://wayback.archive-it.org/4149/20131202214317/http://www.cbdna.org/cgi-bin/about5.pl, archived December 2, 2013). The CBDNA website includes information about its officers, history, constitution, bylaws, statement of purpose, membership, commissions, committees, divisions, publications, CBDNA report, conferences, events, bulletin board, and member services. CBDNA maintains committees on athletic bands, music education, gender and ethnicity, small/community colleges, Music as a Social Force, conductor health, research, Wind Music in Our Culture, technology, and new works.

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Subject:   Performing arts archives Performing arts -- Web archives College Band Directors National Association -- Web archives

Title: International Clarinet Association

URL: http://www.clarinet.org/

Collection: Special Collections in Performing Arts

Description: Archived website of the International Clarinet Association (ICA). ICA was founded in 1973 to "support projects that will benefit clarinet performance; provide opportunities for the exchange of ideas, materials, and information among its members; foster the composition, publication, recording, and distribution of music for the clarinet; and encourages and promotes the performance and teaching of a wide variety of repertoire for the clarinet" (International Clarinet Association Research Center finding aid, https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1758, accessed June 19, 2018; "History," http://wayback.archive-it.org/4149/20141204193415/https://www.clarinet.org/history.asp, archived December 4, 2014). The ICA website includes information about its mission, leadership, International Access Initiative, publications, national and regional festivals, competitions, and research.

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Subject:   Performing arts archives Performing arts -- Web archives International Clarinet Association -- Web archives

Title: American College Dance Association (ACDA)

URL: https://www.acda.dance/

Collection: Special Collections in Performing Arts

Description: Archived website of the American College Dance Association (ACDA), formerly the American College Dance Festival Association (ACDFA). The ACDFA was founded in 1973 to acknowledge and foster the role that colleges had been playing in the development of dance since the 1960s. Originally formed by thirteen charter member colleges and universities, the ACDFA now consists of over 300 member institutions. The ACDFA sponsors eleven regional conferences where colleges and university submit pieces to be adjudicated by nationally recognized dance professionals. The association also sponsors the National Dance Festival, which showcases works selected from all the regional conferences. The ACDA website includes information about its mission, history, regions, bylaws, policies, leadership, regional conferences, national festivals, membership, newsletters, and resources for dance in higher education.

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Subject:   Performing arts archives Performing arts -- Web archives American College Dance Association -- Web archives Dance festivals -- Web archives

Title: Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)

URL: https://www.arsc-audio.org/index.php

Collection: Special Collections in Performing Arts

Description: Archived website of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), a nonprofit organization founded in 1966 and dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings; in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC membership is comprised of both private individuals and institutional collectors. Current membership consists of approximately one thousand archivists, librarians, and curators representing many of the worlds leading audiovisual repositories participate in ARSC alongside record collectors, record dealers, researchers, historians, discographers, musicians, engineers, producers, reviewers, and broadcasters. ARSC hosts an Annual Conference bringing together collectors from a variety of backgrounds. Since 1968, ARSC has published a peer-reviewed journal and the ARSC Newsletter delivers timely announcements, short articles, and a calendar of coming events. The ARSC website includes information about its publications, membership, annual conference, email list, grant programs, awards, audio preservation and restoration directory, education and training programs, statements, blog, board, chapters, committees, news, and events.

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Subject:   Performing arts archives Performing arts -- Web archives Association for Recorded Sound Collections -- Web archives Sound recording collections -- Preservation

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