digitizing folk music history seminar notes, 17 May 2011.
Tuesday 5/17. Archive Dust Theory.
- Carolyn Steedman, Dust: The Archive and Cultural History (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002).
- Smith, Anthology of American Folk Music, Part 3, listen.
- Optional: Browse That Old Weird America Blog.
Discussion:
- What is history, anyway?
- After reading Steedman, how are you understanding your work this quarter in the archive of the Berkeley Folk Festival?
- How does the archive relate to the construction of your interpretive digital history projects based on the archival materials?