Sounding Spirit

Sounding Spirit is a research lab and publishing initiative promoting collaborative engagement with the songbooks that sound America’s musical landscape.

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

We can't wait to start the next phase of our digital library this fall. Let the digitization begin! #bookbybook #digitalhumanities #soundingamoreperfectunion

[National Endowment for the Humanities @NEHgov]

Explore historical sacred songbooks and texts that mediate race, place, and religion in American music #history and #culture, with the #NEHgrant-funded @SoundingSpirit digital repository. https://t.co/RWKgM049ks

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

Many thanks to @UKLibraries for this celebration of our @NEHgov-funded collaborations on the expanding digital library. We're delighted to be partnering with good colleagues and great collections!

[Marc C. Whitt @marcwhitt]

The @SoundingSpirit team, which includes @UKLibraries and John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, as well as five other partners, has been awarded a third grant from @NEHgov to further preserve, enhance engagement w/historic Southern sacred songbooks. https://t.co/Pbxqf6jUcG

[Friday Fellowship @FridayFellows]

Congrats to Friday Fellow Meredith Doster (Class of 2017-19) on major federal funding awarded to @SoundingSpirit where she serves as Managing Editor & Project Manager. What does fellowship at work mean? How does relationship (w/@MarkSV) show up? Read more:
https://t.co/GmhEMJNFVe

[Center for Popular Music @center4popmusic]

The Center for Popular Music is proud to announce its participation in @SoundingSpirit, which has just received funding of $346,781 from the @NEHgov! https://t.co/jMXJXOXnSq

[Center for Popular Music @center4popmusic]

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Congratulations to @SoundingSpirit on their @NEHgov grant! 🎶📚

[PittsTheologyLibrary @PittsLibrary]

Pitts is excited to contribute its expertise and many works from its hymnody collection to this important digital project! #digitization #hymnals

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

Thanks to the @NEHgov, we will soon be expanding the Sounding Spirit digital library. Ready? Set? Digitize! Congratulations to our wonderful partners joining us in creating new archives of southern sacred musics. https://t.co/gGT5JaLGkY

[Atla @YourAtla]

We are pleased to welcome @SoundingSpirit as the newest contributor to the Atla Digital Library!

This project spans the archives of @PittsLibrary, the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the @univofkentucky, @SBTS, & @center4popmusic at MTSU.

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[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

This exploration of the unacknowledged labor of wrongfully convicted Black people who died building western North Carolina's Swannanoa Tunnel is both reckoning and requiem. Hear James William Love sing: "Somebody died. Somebody’s dead." #soundingspirit
https://t.co/1OeBSby1h3

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

Many thanks to @YourAtla for this lovely write-up about our digital library. Check out their collections and resources at https://t.co/7vrbZwLkvK.
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[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

#Amen! Thanks to the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music of @UKFineArts for joining us in creating the Sounding Spirit Digital Library and to the @universityofky News for publishing this lovely article on the project.

[Jesse P. Karlsberg, PhD @jpkarlsberg]

I’m excited about the launch of Readux 2, developed by @EmoryCDS w/ @benwbrum & Sara Brumfield. Readux supports #teaching & #research w/ digitized books and uses #iiif to build federated thematic collections. @SoundingSpirit uses Readux for our digital library, and you could too!

[Center for Popular Music @center4popmusic]

We are very excited to be part of the @SoundingSpirit digital library project. You can look at the digitized songbooks and hymnals published across the southern United States from 1850 to 1925 here: https://t.co/XGqJ1cf8g0

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

The Sounding Spirit initiative affirms the full humanity of Black lives, the power and resiliency of Black communities, and the creative and intellectual brilliance of Black expression. #blacklivesmatter #soundingjustice

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the inaugural Sounding Spirit digital library, featuring 22 songbooks and hymnals representing the variety of vernacular southern sacred song published from 1850 to 1925. You can browse these books at: https://t.co/W4xi6uS1lC.

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

"Oh when will the period appear / When I shall unite in your song?" Singing for sequestered souls with Sacred Harp singer Coy Ivey leading "Panting for Heaven" at Liberty Baptist Church in Henagar, Alabama. #soundingspirit #sacredharp #socialdistancing

https://t.co/UjWn9U2OqX

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

The work continues! Project team members at @EmoryCDS working from home in Decatur, Georgia, and Mars Hill, North Carolina, met recently with @center4popmusic's Rachel Morris. Do our post-processed scans match the songbooks Rachel's team digitized? #soundingspirit #remotework

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

THE LONE PILGRIM offers 19th-century social distancing insights. Pictured here from the Original Sacred Harp (1911), this John Ellis text invites us to meet "the contagion" – but not one another. #soundingspirit #washyourhands #lonebutnotalone

[Sounding Spirit @SoundingSpirit]

Our resourceful solution to minimizing transcription eye strain on songbook index pages? An @EmoryCDS bookmark inched across each line of the image. One. dot. at. a. time. #soundingspirit #OCR #digitalhumanities #dotdotdot

[Colored Conventions @CCP_org]

We're speaking up today. Help us say it loud?

Projects like ours + @DouglassDayorg are made possible by public investments in our culture & humanity. We can't do this without the @NEHgov + @NEH_ODH.

Call your reps today!

Our video from the last round: https://t.co/I2TmeGhoAE