Sounding Spirit: Scholarly Editions from the Southern Sacred Music Diaspora, 1850–1925
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Scholarly Editions and Translations, Division of Research Programs
- $260,000, outright
- Principal Investigator
- 2018–21 (three-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
- Announcement: “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.
- Announcement: “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.
Sounding Spirit Digital Library: Sacred Music from the Southern Diaspora, 1850–1925
- National Endowment for the Humanities
- Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
- $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
- 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
- Digital Humanities Advancement Grants, Office of Digital Humanities
- $86,471, outright
- Co-Principal Investigator, with Scott Robertson (Georgia Tech).
- 2018–20 (eighteen-month term)
The development and testing of the Digital Drawer project on digitized community archives for rural Georgia audiences.
Resources
- Announcement: “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.
- Announcement: “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.