Abstract
Digital Humanities projects can help to expand culture by making more cultural objects available to the public. In this chapter, I show how we can make digital projects that emphasize praxis to fulfil public need. To do this, I discuss my experiences in building an online music archive—MusicDetour: The DFW Local Music Archive. This chapter walks the reader through developing a good project from research to execution. The chapter also discusses ways scholars can build a Digital Humanities project with little technical knowledge. By emphasizing praxis, I demonstrate that the way to change culture begins with changing the system.
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Christian Fuchs, Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age (New York, NY: Routledge, 2008).
- 2.
Stuart Hall, Jessica Evans, and Sean Nixon, eds. Representation, 2nd ed. (London: Sage: The Open University, 2013), xix.
- 3.
William Patry, Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009), 110.
- 4.
Bethany Klein, Giles Moss, and Lee Edwards, Understanding Copyright: Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2015).
- 5.
David Arditi, “Downloading Is Killing Music: The Recording Industry’s Piracy Panic Narrative,” in Civilisations, The State of the Music Industry, ed. Victor Sarafian and Rosemary Findley 63, no. 1 (2014): 13–32.
- 6.
James Boyle. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008); Vaidhyanathan, The Googlization of Everything (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011); and Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (New York: New York University Press, 2003).
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Stith H. Bennett, On Becoming a Rock Musician (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), 35.
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Ibid.
- 9.
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity (New York: Penguin Press, 2004); Patrick Burkart, “Music in the Cloud and the Digital Sublime,” Popular Music and Society 37, no. 4 (2013); and Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, 1st ed. (New York: Hyperion, 2006).
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David Arditi, iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014).
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Boyle, The Public Domain; Vaidhyanathan, The Googlization of Everything.
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Burkart, Patrick. “Music in the Cloud and the Digital Sublime.” Popular Music and Society 37, no. 4 (2013): 393–407.
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Hall, Stuart, Jessica Evans, and Sean Nixon, eds. Representation. 2nd ed. London: Sage: The Open University, 2013.
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Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
———. The Googlization of Everything. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
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Arditi, D. (2018). MusicDetour: Building a Digital Humanities Archive. In: levenberg, l., Neilson, T., Rheams, D. (eds) Research Methods for the Digital Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96713-4_4
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