An Open Curriculum on New Orleans Culture

FAIN: AA-284581-22

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
Bryan E. Wagner (Project Director: May 2021 to present)
Jessica Marie Johnson (Co Project Director: January 2022 to present)

The creation of open educational resources on the art, music, culture, and related history of New Orleans.  

Our purpose is to enhance college and university teaching by developing and sharing digital resources on art, music, history, politics, and culture in New Orleans. Our curriculum will be divided into modules that can be adapted in courses across the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Modules will combine original performance and demonstration videos with archival documents, photographs, and field recordings—all annotated with an eye to form, history, context, and technique. We are an outgrowth of a community institution in the Seventh Ward of New Orleans, Neighborhood Story Project, but our network of collaborators includes academics from sectors across higher education at various ranks and career stages as well as independent scholars, curators, archivists, artists, musicians, and culture bearers.