Archive Fever: What Is an Archive in the Digital Age?

digitizing folk music history seminar notes, 17 May 2011.

Dust

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?

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