A History of African American Music: Interactive Digital Timeline Prototyping Project
FAIN: MT-263969-19
Carnegie Hall (New York, NY 10019-3210)
Christopher Amos (Project Director: June 2018 to June 2021)
Development
of a website prototype and interactive timeline on the history of African
American music.
Carnegie Hall requests an NEH Digital Projects for the Public Prototyping Grant of $100,000 to develop a working prototype as the next phase of an initiative to redevelop an interactive digital timeline of the history of African American music. The goal of the prototyping process is to produce an engaging and innovative resource that makes the humanities content on African American music, culture, and history accessible to a broad public audience. By engaging in an iterative, user-centered, and mobile-first design approach, Carnegie Hall intends to create a dynamic, responsive resource with multifaceted layers that can continue to grow, evolve, and be used and sustained over time. Carnegie Hall plans to relaunch the timeline prominently and support broad engagement with the new digital resource for music lovers, students, educators, and researchers worldwide.
Associated Products
Timeline of African American Music (working prototype) (Web Resource)Title: Timeline of African American Music (working prototype)
Author: Carnegie Hall
Author: Dr. Portia K. Maultsby
Abstract: The Timeline of African American Music is an engaging and innovative digital resource that makes humanities content on African American music, culture, and history accessible to a broad public audience. Based on the work of lead scholar Dr. Portia Maultsby, the Founding Director of the Archives of African America Music and Culture at Indiana University, the digital timeline presents a survey of the evolution of African American musical genres over the past 400 years—from the earliest folk traditions to contemporary popular music. It serves as an introduction to the richness and diversity of African American music, focusing on the distinct characteristics and development of each genre and offering an in-depth look at the pioneers who defined some of America’s most influential artistic expressions. Visitors can learn about various genres and historical movements through multimedia stories, photos, historical images (including related holdings from Carnegie Hall's Archives), and listen to musical works.
Year: 2019
Primary URL:
http://www.dropbox.com/s/g6g9peteof5hc7p/Walkthrough%20with%20Subtitles.mp4?dl=0Primary URL Description: This is a video walkthrough of the working prototype showing the timeline's features and functionality.
Secondary URL:
http://music-timeline.netlify.com/Secondary URL Description: This is a link to the functional prototype. Please note that the prototype has limited content and does not have full functionality. There are 2 main stories and 3 genres loaded—New Orleans-Style Jazz, Rural Blues, and Swing Bands. Outside of this, users will see mostly blank pages.