Readings
- Richard Cullen Rath, “Hearing American History,” Journal of American History 95, no. 2 (September 2008): 417–431. PDF of article.
- Alex Zukas, “Different Drummers: Using Music to Teach History,” Perspectives on History, September 1996: http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/september-1996/different-drummers-using-music-to-teach-history
- Lawrence Levine, “Two Blues Songs,” Teaching History, http://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/examples-of-historical-thinking/25203
- Krista Sigler, “Podcasting and the Profession,” Perspectives on History, May 2008,
http://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/may-2008/podcasting-and-the-profession
Activities
Guest Instructor: Mike O’Malley
Morning (9-12)
- Introduction to major collections of sound, music
- Preparing sound/video file for upload to YouTube, like What Did Elvis Do: https://t.co/lr4WIGwWhJ
- Learning to use Audacity to work with sound
Afternoon (1-4)
- Building arguments with sound and video
- Hands-on Session: Build a short digital narrative using Scalar
- Hands-on Session: Build a short digital narrative using Omeka Exhibit Builder or Animoto
Homework
Write a short blog post about how you might use non-textual sources or might create a video or annotate one for class or your digital project.
Sites
- National Jukebox, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
- Postmodern Jukebox, http://www.postmodernjukebox.com/
- All Music, http://www.allmusic.com/
- Oral History in the Digital Age, http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/
- Virtual Paul’s Cross Project http://vpcp.chass.ncsu.edu/
- Emily Thompson, The Roaring Twenties, an interactive exploration of the historical soundscape of New York City, http://vectors.usc.edu/projects/index.php?project=98
Tools
- Atube Capture
- Animoto
- Scalar
- Opensource audio: Audacity
- Mac programs: Garage Band, iMovie
- Windows programs: Windows Movie Maker, MixCraft,
- Podcast plugin for your WordPress blog: http://wordpress.org/plugins/podpress/
Reference
- Rosenzweig and Cohen, “Owning the Past?,” Digital History, http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/copyright/
- Guide to Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, Cornell:
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm - Fair Use Checklist, Cornell, http://copyright.cornell.edu/policies/docs/Fair_Use_Checklist.pdf
- Loudness War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
- Alessandro Portelli, “What Makes Oral History Different,” (PDF) The Oral History Reader (London: Routledge, 1998 [1977])
- Andrew J. Salvati, “DIY Histories: Podcasting the Past,” Sound Studies Blog, April 14, 2014, http://soundstudiesblog.com/2014/04/14/diy-histories-podcasting-the-presenting-of-the-past/
- R. Murray Schafer, “The Soundscape,” in Jonathan Sterne, ed., Sound Studies Reader, Routledge, 2012, PDF of Article