This Fall I will be teaching two courses: ISS 240/VMS 288/AMI 325: Web-Based Multimedia Communications, which we are offering in a hybrid online lecture and live section format for the first time. (I will be doing the lecture parts and coordinating the sections). This course fulfills the Practice component of…
DH2017 in Montreal
Trudi Abel and I participated in a digital pedagogy workshop at on August 8, 2017 at the Digital Humanities 2017 in Montreal, Quebec. We were part of the Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Local, National, and International Training (2017) mini-workshop. We talked about NC Jukebox and different Archives Alive based projects.
NC Jukebox visits Western North Carolina
On April 22, 2017 Terry McKinney and his band hosted a special concert at the Orchard’s at Alta Pass. The NC Jukebox team, led by Trudi Abel from Rubenstein Library and myself, were the featured guests. Our students presented some of the research they had done on the singers and songs…
NC Jukebox Exhibition Up at Rubenstein
On September 1, 2016 the NC Jukebox exhibition at Rubenstein will be officially opening! This exhibit showcases some of the analog source materials being used for the digital archive project. It has been great to work with original media objects on this -all that AURA. Trudi Abel and Meghan O’Neil…
DH2016 and the wonders of Krakow
I had the fantastic opportunity to attend DH 2016 in Krakow this year. I had never been to Central/Eastern Europe, which, considering my ancestors come from the region, seemed overdue. It was wonderful to experience history as represented through museums and heritage sites in both Budapest and Krakow before heading…
NC Jukebox at HASTAC and DH2016
Looking forward to sharing the NC Jukebox project at HASTAC in Tempe, AZ and at DH2016 in Krakow! https://hastac2016.sched.org/event/6DtD/achives-alive-activating-the-north-carolina-jukebox DH2016 HASTAC is always a great experience, of course. I’m also exceptionally excited for the latter, however, both because getting conected to the international, big-tent DH community is great – and b/c…
NC Jukebox Renewed with Bass Connections; Open House on 1/27/2016
The NC Jukebox project was renewed within the Bass Connections Information, Society, and Culture theme. We are also supported by the Franklin Humanities Institute. This means we will be able to develop our exhibitions at the Rubenstein Library and in Western NC further this summer, and to offer another class…
CLIR “Hidden Collections Grant”
Great news! CLIR funded the Rubenstein Library’s Hidden Collections grant to digitize the rest of the Frank Clyde Brown collection of wax cylinders and aluminum disks. These recordings of western NC singers and songs from the early 20th c. are a tremendous resource for historians, ethnomusicologists, and folk musicians as well…
Bass Connections Project: NC Jukebox
This Spring we began preparation for the NC Jukebox project, a Bass Connections/Information, Society, and Culture and FHI jointly sponsored project. The project is focused on the Frank Clyde Brown collection of wax cylinder recordings of NC Mountain Music.
