English Broadside Ballad Archive

FAIN: PW-50602-10

University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
Patricia Fumerton (Project Director: July 2009 to November 2013)

The digitization and incorporation into an electronic archive of images from 1,100 English broadside ballads, mostly from the 17th century, as well as illustrative woodcuts, facsimile transcriptions, contextual essays, and audio files of sung versions of the ballads.

The University of California-Santa Barbara requests critical funding to launch an important 3rd stage of its electronic English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) and mount online the British Library's Bagford, Luttrell, Huth, and Osterley Park collections of mostly 17th century ballads, approx. 1,100 works. The BL has granted UCSB unprecedented permission to add its ballad holdings to EBBA. The expanded archive will provide high-quality digital facsimiles as well as facsimile transcriptions, which preserve the ballads' original look, with all their ornament, while transcribing the original font into easily readable roman type. In addition, we will offer deep cataloguing according to TEI/XML/MARC standards, song recordings, informative essays, flexible search functions, and an enhanced technological infrastructure. An expanded EBBA will open up new ways of understanding early modern popular culture, literature, art, and music as well as the great collectors of the time.

Media Coverage

Archive Watch: Summer Doldrums Edition (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Jennifer Howard
Publication: Chronicle of Higher Education
Date: 8/4/2010
Abstract: Jennifer Howard briefly talks about EBBA in a list of "cool digital archives"
URL: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/archive-watch-summer-doldrums-edition/25993

Preservation Week 2012, Day 5: The English Broadside Ballad Archive (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Division of Preservation and Access Staff
Publication: National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access
Date: 4/23/2012
URL: http://www.neh.gov/divisions/preservation/featured-project/preservation-week-2012-day-5-the-english-broadside-ballad

SB Projects win humanities grants (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Carolyn Bolton
Publication: Santa Barbara News-Press
Date: 3/22/2012
URL: http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=LOCAL&ID=566392761356517401&Archive=true

Associated Products

Samuel Pepys and the Making of Ballad Publics: Song, Performance, Identity (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Samuel Pepys and the Making of Ballad Publics: Song, Performance, Identity
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 11/13/2012
Conference Name: The Huntington Library

Samuel Pepys and the Making of Ballad Publics: Song, Performance, Identity (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Samuel Pepys and the Making of Ballad Publics: Song, Performance, Identity
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 10/17/2012
Conference Name: Identities, Intertextuality, and Performance in Song Culture (c. 1500 – c. 1800)

EBBA’s Re-Imagined Classroom (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: EBBA’s Re-Imagined Classroom
Author: Eric Nebeker
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 3/23/2012
Primary URL: http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.rsa.org/resource/resmgr/Annual_Meeting/2012_program_final_file.pdf
Conference Name: Renaissance Society of America Conference

Masquing Peace: The Inns' Triumph and Prynne's Disgrace (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Masquing Peace: The Inns' Triumph and Prynne's Disgrace
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Abstract: N/A
Date: 3/1/2012
Conference Name: Early Modern Center Winter Conference

Kisses, Oranges, and Tailors: A tune's journey through the broadside ballad network (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Kisses, Oranges, and Tailors: A tune's journey through the broadside ballad network
Author: Charlotte Becker
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Abstract: N/A
Date: 3/1/2012
Conference Name: Early Modern Center Winter Conference

Vexed Impressions: Toward a Digital Archiv e of Broadside Ballad Illustrations (Book Section)
Title: Vexed Impressions: Toward a Digital Archiv e of Broadside Ballad Illustrations
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Author: Carl Stahmer
Author: Kris McAbee
Editor: Melissa Terras
Editor: Brent Nelson
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://www.itergateway.org/forthntmrsIII
Publisher: Iter and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Book Title: Digitizing Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture
ISBN: 978-0-86698-47

Interdisciplinary Knowledge Work: Digital Textual Analysis Tools and Their Collaboration Affordances (Book Section)
Title: Interdisciplinary Knowledge Work: Digital Textual Analysis Tools and Their Collaboration Affordances
Author: Elizabeth Lagresa
Author: Jessica C. Murphy
Author: Monica Bulger
Author: Jeff Scheible,
Editor: Laura McGrath
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2011
Primary URL: http://ccdigitalpress.org/ebooks-and-projects/cad
Publisher: Computers and Composition Digital Press
Book Title: Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English Studies
ISBN: 978087421887

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