Toward a Multimodal Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project

digital public history as folk music hootenanny—part 2 of 3, now published at ncph’s history@work blog.

Published at the National Council on Public History’s History@Work blog, the three-part blog post “Digital public history as folk music hootenanny” explores the development of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project.

Part 1 relates how I came into contact with this remarkable “analog” archive itself.

Part 2 retraces how bringing the project along required working cooperatively with librarians, archivists, students, technologists, scholars, and participants.

Part 3 looks to where the project is headed next in its attempts to make fruitful links between folk music revivalism (with all its problems and issues as well as its possibilities and potential) and digital public history futurism.