BISAC Subject Headings List, Performing Arts
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If you can't find the code you're looking for please go back and review other Major Subjects to find an alternate code or use our Contact Form to suggest revisions to the next version of the list.
Step 2: Determine the specific term which describes your book.
An asterisk (*) denotes a heading that is new for the 2012 Edition.
PERFORMING ARTS
Use subjects beginning with "PERFORMING ARTS / Theater" for works on drama as performed on the stage and use "PERFORMING ARTS / Screenplays" for dramatic works written for film or television. Use subjects in the DRAMA section for dramatic works written for the stage.| PER000000 | PERFORMING ARTS / General |
| PER001000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning |
| PER017000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Animation |
| PERFORMING ARTS / Broadway & Musical Revue see Theater / Broadway & Musical Revue | |
| PER014000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Business Aspects |
| PER002000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Circus |
| PER015000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Comedy |
| PER003000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General |
| PER003010 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet |
| PER003090 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Ballroom * |
| PER003020 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Folk |
| PER003100 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism * |
| PER003030 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Jazz |
| PER003040 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern |
| PER003050 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Notation |
| PER003060 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Popular |
| PER003070 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Reference |
| PER003080 | PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Tap |
| PER004000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General |
| PER004010 | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production |
| PER004020 | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Guides & Reviews |
| PER004030 | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism |
| PER004040 | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference |
| PER004050 | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Screenwriting |
| PER018000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Individual Director (see also BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts) |
| PERFORMING ARTS / Mass Media see SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies | |
| PERFORMING ARTS / Miming see Theater / Miming | |
| PER020000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Monologues & Scenes |
| PER007000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Puppets & Puppetry |
| PER008000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / General |
| PER008010 | PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / History & Criticism |
| PER008020 | PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / Reference |
| PER009000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Reference |
| PER016000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Screenplays |
| PER019000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Storytelling |
| PER010000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General |
| PER010010 | PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Direction & Production |
| PER010020 | PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Guides & Reviews |
| PER010030 | PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism |
| PER010040 | PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Reference |
| PER010050 | PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Screenwriting |
| PER011000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General |
| PER013000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Broadway & Musical Revue |
| PER011010 | PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Direction & Production |
| PER011020 | PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism |
| PER006000 | PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Miming |
| PER011030 | PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting |
| PER011040 | PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft |
| PERFORMING ARTS / Video see headings under Film & Video |
If your title does not have subject content, i.e. a blank book, please use the Non-Classifiable term below. Otherwise, use the Subject/General term in the closest descriptive area.
NON000000 NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Please note that the BISAC Subject Headings List is governed by the following copyright notice.
© 2012, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of the attached documents may be distributed or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the express permission of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc.