The Department of Visual and Performing Arts is a vibrant and active arts community consisting of a faculty of arts scholars and practitioners of national and international acclaim who are dedicated to advancing knowledge, promoting intellectual inquiry, encouraging life-long learning, and cultivating creativity in all students through teaching, research, scholarship, artistry, and public performance.
The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop by 
The Dance, Art, and Ritual of Africa by 
Digging by 
The Hippest Trip in America by 
Music in Our Lives by 
Musical Landscapes in Color by 
Something to Live For by 
Somebody's Angel Child: The Story of Bessie Smith by 
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations by 
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by 
The Harvard Dictionary of Music by 
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by 
The New Oxford Companion to Music by Print items in the Langston Hughes Memorial Library are organized using the Library of Congress classification system. In this system, the following letter codes are used to identify print items in Dance and Music:
GV: Dance is LoC-classified as part of Geography, Anthropology, and Recreation. Call numbers range between GV1580-1799.4. Music scores for dance are found in the appropriate place in Class M (Music). Music used to accompany dance instruction (ballet, folk dance, gymnastics) may be found under call numbers beginning with MT 950.
M: Music includes any and all music scores, individual and collected, including music for solo performance, chamber music, works for large ensemble, musical theater, ballet, and opera. Items in M may include recordings of accompaniment tracks. Call numbers range between M1-5000. Items in M may be reference works and as such not available for circulation.
ML: Literature on Music includes Music history, criticism, philosophy, reference works, and music librarianship. Call numbers range between ML1-3230. Items in ML may include recordings. Some of these titles are reference works and may be not available for circulation.
MT: Instruction and Study includes books on Music pedagogy, Music theory and history textbooks, instrumental and vocal Music method books, etude books, and play-alongs. In some cases, items in MT include recordings. Call numbers range between MT1-960.
Circulating titles for Music and Dance are located in the 4th floor stacks; titles for younger readers may be found in the Curriculum Collection on the 2nd floor; reference titles for Music and Dance are located in the 2nd floor reference area.
