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Digitizing Folk Music History Artist Residency: Anna Roberts-Gevalt
musician, composer & artist anna roberts-gevalt @ middlebury college, 2-5 April 2019 Anna Roberts-Gevalt. The wonderful Anna Roberts-Gevalt, Vermont native and one half of Smithsonian Folkways...
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Thesis
a simple assignment for students to explore iteration & revision. When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. — Wallace Stevens How might we encourage...
View ArticleDigital Analysis vs. Communication
a possibly useful continuum for digital humanities. One of the dreams of digital humanities has been to blur the distinction between process and product. Online, the research room, the design studio,...
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Humbead’s Map Folk Music Data Viz
more d3.js experiments with humbead’s revised map of the world. Middlebury student Lambus Li continues to do fascinating digital mapping and data visualization experiments with Humbead’s Revised Map...
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Student Showcase: Atomic Folk—The Folk Music Revival and the Bomb
rhys glennon explores musical references to the atomic bomb. Joan Baez supposedly (and probably apocryphally) claimed she sang “to troubled intellectuals with the Bomb on their minds” in the folk...
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Student Showcase: Nina Simone—The Life, Legacy, and Activism of the High...
gabby meeks explores the life and work of nina simone through historical inquiry and cultural criticism. “Where’s my tambourine,” Nina Simone joked as she introduced “Little Liza Jane” at the 1960...
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Student Showcase: Jammin’ with Jerry
eleanor pontikes probes the folk origins of jerry garcia. “Me, play rock and roll?” Jerry Garcia exclaims at the start the song “Trouble in Mind,” sung in a duet with future songwriting partner Robert...
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Student Showcase: Blue Crystal Fire—Transposing Robbie Basho
madison middleton investigates the strange and spiritual career of robbie basho. “It dawned on me, music is supposed to say something, music is supposed to do something,” Robbie Basho explained about...
View ArticleStudents Examine Folk Music History Through a Digital Lens
digitizing folk music history feature from middlebury college newsroom. Wow! What a wonderful profile of the students in my Digitizing Folk Music History course this past spring at Middlebury College:...
View ArticleSyllabus: Digital Methods for Historical Projects: Working @ SUNY Brockport
Spring 2020 @ SUNY Brockport. HST 380 Instructor Dr. Michael J. Kramer Course Description Students explore the emerging field of digital public history through a hands-on collective project,...
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02/14/20: Douglass Day @ SUNY Brockport
friday, february 14, 2020, noon-3pm @ kiefer room, drake memorial library, suny brockport. An international digital celebration of Frederick Douglass’ chosen birthday and Black History Month, focused...
View Article04/03/20: Digital Cultural History—A Roundtable @ OAH Conference, Washington, DC
six historians explore the links—and tensions—between digital and cultural history. Coming up at the 2020 Organization of American Historians Conference in Washington DC.
View ArticleR-E-S-P-E-C-T and the Social Movements of the Sixties
an educational history video share. For teachers and students in search of online teaching material, here is a half-hour exploration of the song “Respect.” This video and worksheet can be used to...
View ArticleStudent Showcase: Rochester, New York and the “Long Hot Summer” of July 1964
harry deVoe probes the historiography of urban civil rights uprisings during the 1960s. Professor Kramer’s comments: In the fall of 2019, students in my SUNY Brockport Department of History course...
View ArticleLife During Covid-19 Digital Pop-Up Exhibition
student “reports from the field” of COVID-19’s early months in the US. My spring 2020 course HST 380: Digital Methods for Historical Projects shifted from our intended goal of creating oral histories,...
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