Sounding Spirit Digital Library: Digitizing Southern Vernacular Sacred Song
- National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-277494-21)
- Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Division of Preservation and Access
- $344,687, outright
- Principal Investigator
- 2021–24 (three-year term)
The digitization of 1,284 books of vernacular sacred music from the U.S. South published between 1850 and 1925.
Resources
- Project website: SoundingSpirit.org
- Announcements:
- “Sounding Spirit Receives NEH Grant for Sacred Music Digital Library,” Emory Center for Digital Scholarship Blog, April 22, 2021.
- “Sounding Spirit Team, Including UK Libraries and Niles Center, Awarded NEH Grant for American Music Digital Library,” University of Kentucky News, June 30, 2021.
- Press release: “NEH Announces $24 Million for 225 Humanities Projects Nationwide,” National Endowment for the Humanities Newsroom, April 14, 2021.
Sounding Spirit: Scholarly Editions from the Southern Sacred Music Diaspora, 1850–1925
- National Endowment for the Humanities (RQ-260871-18)
- Scholarly Editions and Translations, Division of Research Programs
- $260,000, outright
- Principal Investigator
- 2018–23 (five-year term)
Preparation of print and digital editions of five volumes of American Protestant music from several traditions, including gospel, spirituals, lined-out hymn singing, and shape-note music.
Resources
- Project website: SoundingSpirit.org
- Announcements:
- “Sounding Spirit Receives $260,000 Grant for Digital Critical Editions from the National Endowment for the Humanities,” Emory Center for Digital Scholarship Blog, August 8, 2018.
- “Emory Project to Provide Wide Access to Influential American Songbooks,” Emory News Center, September 11, 2018.
- Press release: “NEH Announces $43.1 Million for 218 Humanities Projects Nationwide,” National Endowment for the Humanities Newsroom, August 8, 2018.
Past Grants
Sounding Spirit Digital Library: Sacred Music from the Southern Diaspora, 1850–1925
- National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-264219-19)
- Humanities Collections and Reference Resources, Division of Preservation and Access
- $58,23, outright
- Principal Investigator
- 2019–20 (one-year term)
A planning project to develop a digital library that would include books of vernacular Protestant music from the southern region of the United States published between 1850 and 1925.
Resources
- Project website: SoundingSpirit.org
- White paper: “Interinstitutional Thematic Collection Development: Technical and Procedural Considerations from the Sounding Spirit Digital Library,” National Endowment for the Humanities, July 2020.
- Dataset: “Checklist of Southern Sacred Music Imprints, 1850–1925,” Sounding Spirit Dataverse, https://doi.org/10.15139/S3/VQT4D5.
- Publicity:
- “Sounding Spirit Digital Library: A Model for Collaborative Digital Scholarship,” Atla Blog, September 17, 2020.
- “ECDS’s Sounding Spirit Initiative Launches Digital Library,” Emory Center for Digital Scholarship Blog, May 1, 2020.
- “UK’s Niles Center Joins Sounding Spirit Team for Launch of Digital Library of American Sacred Music,” University of Kentucky News, July 23, 2020.
- Announcement: “Sounding Spirit Receives $58,230 Grant for Sacred Music Digital Library From the National Endowment for the Humanities,” Emory Center for Digital Scholarship Blog, April 4, 2019.
- Press release: “NEH Announces $28.6 Million for 233 Humanities Projects Nationwide,” National Endowment for the Humanities Newsroom, March 28, 2019.
The Digital Drawer: A Crowd-Sourced, Curated, Digital Archive Preserving History and Memory
- National Endowment for the Humanities (HAA-261266-18)
- Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, Office of Digital Humanities
- $86,471, outright
- Co-Principal Investigator, with Scott Robertson (Georgia Tech).
- 2018–20 (two-year term)
The development and testing of the Digital Drawer project on digitized community archives for rural Georgia audiences.
Resources
- White paper: “The Digital Drawer: A Crowd-Sourced, Curated, Digital Archive Preserving History and Memory,” National Endowment for the Humanities, November 16, 2020.
- Announcements:
- “ECDS Collaboration With Georgia Tech to Support Accessible Crowd-sourced Digital Archive Receives $86,471 Grant From the National Endowment for the Humanities,” Emory Center for Digital Scholarship Blog, August 23, 2018.
- “Preserving the History of Georgia’s Rural Churches,” Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology, August 9, 2018.
- Press release: “NEH Announces $43.1 Million for 218 Humanities Projects Nationwide,” National Endowment for the Humanities Newsroom, August 8, 2018.