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Project Details

A multimodal public history project about the Berkeley Folk Music Festival (1958-1970) & folk music revival on the West Coast of the United States. The project consists of an open-source, digital repository of over 35,000 artifacts, an introductory digital exhibition, multimedia essays, an audio podcast series, digital mapping, a gallery exhibition, a box set/print catalog, an oral history component, a college course, lesson plans for primary and secondary historical and musical education, and cultural heritage outreach through partnerships in the Bay Area and elsewhere.

Subjects or Themes

US History, Music History, Cultural History, Folklore, Folk Music, Cultural Heritage, California History, Southern Studies, American Studies, Popular Music Studies, African American History, Post-World War II History

Project Language(s)

English

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Geographic Location

Project Categories

Content Type

Images, Sound, Text, Oral History, Mapping, Teacher Resources, Public Programming

Target Audience(s)

Creators

Project Director: Dr. Michael J. Kramer, Assistant Professor, Department of History, SUNY Brockport

Year(s)

2010-Present

Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location

SUNY Brockport/Northwestern University Libraries

Software Employed

Labor and Support

This is an ongoing project that investigates the Berkeley Folk Music Festival and the understudied story of the folk music revival on the West Coast in the context of post-World War II US cultural history. It has involved coursework by students, research by the project director, and digitization and catalog development by a team at Northwestern University Libraries. Extensive labor by multiple participants, from historians to archivists and librarians to students to participants has shaped the project.

Project Cost

Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement

- National Endowment for the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Grant - National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Projects for the Public Discovery Grant - SUNY Brockport Student Apprenticeship Mini-Grants - Northwestern University Student Research Assistant Grants