English Broadside Ballads Archive: Crawford Ballads

FAIN: PW-50983-12

University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
Patricia Fumerton (Project Director: July 2011 to December 2015)

The digitization and incorporation into an electronic archive of images of up to 1,754 English broadside ballads 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 fourth stage of its electronic English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) and mount online the seventeenth-century ballads, primarily the Crawford collection, held by the National Library of Scotland--approx. 1,754 works. The NLS 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, TEI/XML and MARC records, song recordings, informative essays, and an enhanced search engine. An expanded EBBA will open up new ways of understanding early modern popular culture, literature, art, and music as well as the history of ballad collecting.

Associated Products

Noting the Tunes of Seventeenth - Century Broadside Ballads: The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) (Article)
Title: Noting the Tunes of Seventeenth - Century Broadside Ballads: The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA)
Author: Eric Nebeker
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: This essay focuses on the ways a digital archive of printed, pre-1701 English broadside ballads facilitates and complicates the orality that folklorists have traditionally seen in opposition to print. The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) recaptures the multi-media nature of early broadside ballads—as text, art, and song—providing recordings of all extant tunes for the printed ballads and, in doing so, capturing the ease and difficulties of matching text to tune.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://journal.oraltradition.org/issues/28ii/fumerton_nebeker
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Oral Tradition
Publisher: Center for Studies in Oral Tradition

’Systemized Digitization’: Re - visiting EBBA’s Archiving of Ephemeral Broadside Ballads (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: ’Systemized Digitization’: Re - visiting EBBA’s Archiving of Ephemeral Broadside Ballads
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 12/6/2013
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx66f142NJk
Conference Name: Ephemera: Current and Future

Staging Ballad Publics: The Packs of Autolycus (Shakespeare and Ballads) (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Staging Ballad Publics: The Packs of Autolycus (Shakespeare and Ballads)
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/4/2015
Primary URL: http://www.shakespeareassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2015_Program.pdf
Primary URL Description: Conference Program
Conference Name: 43rd Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America

Resinging History: ‘Greensleeves’ Broadside Ballads from Late - Elizabethan to Restoration England (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Resinging History: ‘Greensleeves’ Broadside Ballads from Late - Elizabethan to Restoration England
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: This talk explores why the tune Greensleeves became one of the most popular tunes in the Elizabethan period as well as of the anti-Interregnum period. The question is: how is that a broadside ballad expressive of forlorn courtly love (first registered in the Stationers' Company in the 1580s) became transformed into the voice of vicious, often scatological, political attacks against Cromwell and celebrations of the Restoration of monarchy? What makes the tune and context of Greensleeves so adaptable?
Date: 1/9/2015
Primary URL: https://www.mla.org/conv_listings_detail?prog_id=266&year=2015
Conference Name: Modern Language Association Convention

Lasting Impressions of the Common Woodcut (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Lasting Impressions of the Common Woodcut
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 2/27/2015
Primary URL: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2014-2015/Making_program_TE.pdf
Primary URL Description: Conference Program
Conference Name: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking the Early Modern Era: 1500 - 1800

Staging Ballad Publics: The Packs of Autolycus (Shakespearean Popular Cultures, Then and Now) (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Staging Ballad Publics: The Packs of Autolycus (Shakespearean Popular Cultures, Then and Now)
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 1/8/2015
Primary URL: https://www.mla.org/conv_listings_detail?prog_id=99&year=2015
Conference Name: Modern Language Association Convention

Digital Analytical Bibliography: Ballad Sheet Forensics, Preservation , and the Digital Archive (Article)
Title: Digital Analytical Bibliography: Ballad Sheet Forensics, Preservation , and the Digital Archive
Author: Carl Stahmer
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2015
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Huntington Library Quarterly
Publisher: University of California Press

BIBFLOW: Linked Data in the Not - So - Wild (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: BIBFLOW: Linked Data in the Not - So - Wild
Abstract: N/A
Author: Carl Stahmer
Date: 2/10/2015
Location: San Francisco Public Library
Primary URL: https://www.oclc.org/events/2015/CI_SFPL_Feb_2015.en.html

Big Data and the Digital Humanities (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Big Data and the Digital Humanities
Author: Carl Stahmer
Abstract: N/A
Date: 12/10/2014
Primary URL: http://icis.ucdavis.edu/?page_id=329
Conference Name: Data Rights and Data Wrongs

Data Driven Humanities (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Data Driven Humanities
Abstract: N/A
Author: Carl Stahmer
Date: 12/3/2014
Location: Genome Center, UC Davis
Primary URL: http://genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/2014/11/25/genome-center-hosts-joint-uc-davisllnl-data-science-symposium-on-december-3rd/
Primary URL Description: Announcement and Agenda for the Symposium

Picturing Song across Species: Broadside Ballads in Image and Word (Article)
Title: Picturing Song across Species: Broadside Ballads in Image and Word
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2015
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Huntington Library Quarterly
Publisher: University of California Press

Desdemona’s Disordered Ballad Between Page and Stage (Shakespeare and Ballads) (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Desdemona’s Disordered Ballad Between Page and Stage (Shakespeare and Ballads)
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/3/2015
Primary URL: http://www.shakespeareassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2015_Program.pdf
Conference Name: 43rd Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America

Great Fishes and Monstrous Men in Early Modern Print (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Great Fishes and Monstrous Men in Early Modern Print
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Abstract: N/A
Date: 10/16/2014
Primary URL: http://babel-meeting.org/2014-meeting/
Conference Name: BABEL Working Group Biennial Meeting

Computational Humanities and the Early Modern Digital Archive (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Computational Humanities and the Early Modern Digital Archive
Abstract: N/A
Author: Carl Stahmer
Date: 1/15/2015
Location: UC Davis

Lasting Impressions of the Common Woodcut (Book Section)
Title: Lasting Impressions of the Common Woodcut
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Editor: Catherine Richardson
Editor: David Gaimster
Editor: Tara Hamling
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2015
Primary URL: https://materialhistories.wordpress.com/research-companion-to-early-modern-material-culture-in-europe/
Publisher: Ashgate Press
Book Title: Ashgate Research Comp anion to Material Culture in Early Modern Europe

Finding Tunes (Article)
Title: Finding Tunes
Author: Caroline Bennett
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2015
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: emcIMPRINT

New technologies and Renaissance studies II (Book)
Title: New technologies and Renaissance studies II
Author: Shawn Martin
Author: Ray Siemens, et al.
Author: Toby Burrows
Author: Jim Kuhn
Author: Diane Cole Ahl
Author: Kris McAbee
Author: Farrah Lehman
Author: Tassie Gniady
Author: Kathleen Marie Smith
Author: Jessica C. Murphy
Author: William H. Hsu
Author: Tanya Hagen
Author: Sally-Beth MacLean
Author: Michele Pasin
Author: Anna Schreurs
Author: Carsten Blu¨m
Author: Thorsten Wu¨bbena
Editor: Jessica C. Murphy
Editor: Tassie Gniady
Editor: Kris McAbee
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.itergateway.org/resources/new-technologies-and-renaissance-studies-2
Publisher: Iter and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780866985154

Greensickness and HPV : a comparative analysis? (Book Section)
Title: Greensickness and HPV : a comparative analysis?
Author: William H. Hsu
Author: Jessica C. Murphy
Editor: Jessica C. Murphy
Editor: Tassie Gniady
Editor: Kris McAbee
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.itergateway.org/resources/new-technologies-and-renaissance-studies-2
Publisher: Iter and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Book Title: New technologies and Renaissance studies II
ISBN: 9780866985154

Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550 - 1750: Song, Art, Dance, Culture (Conference/Institute/Seminar)
Title: Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550 - 1750: Song, Art, Dance, Culture
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Author: Charlotte Becker
Author: Frances E. Dolan
Author: Eric Nebeker
Author: Adam Fox
Author: Mark Hailwood
Author: Michael Heaney
Author: Carl Stahmer
Author: Bruce Smith
Author: Angela McShane
Author: Lucie Skeaping
Author: Roger Clegg
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Author: Christopher Marsh
Abstract: N/A
Date Range: 4/4/2014 - 4/5/2014
Location: Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Primary URL: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/content/Huntington-Brochure.pdf

Open Access Results in Increased Scholarship of English Broadside Ballads (Blog Post)
Title: Open Access Results in Increased Scholarship of English Broadside Ballads
Author: Carl Stahmer
Abstract: N/A
Date: 7/7/2014
Primary URL: http://www.carlstahmer.com/2014/07/open-access-results-in-increased-scholarship-of -english-broadside-ballads/
Blog Title: Carl Stahmer, PhD., digital humanist
Website: http://www.carlstahmer.com

Coming Alive: Archiving the Huntington Ballads (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Coming Alive: Archiving the Huntington Ballads
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/4/2014
Primary URL: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2014-2015/Making_program_TE.pdf
Conference Name: Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550 - 1750, Song, Art, Dance, Culture

Displaying Broadside Ballads and Woodcuts (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Displaying Broadside Ballads and Woodcuts
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/5/2014
Primary URL: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2014-2015/Making_program_TE.pdf
Conference Name: Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550 - 1750, Song, Art, Dance, Culture

Conclusion: ‘good night good people all (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Conclusion: ‘good night good people all
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/5/2014
Primary URL: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2014-2015/Making_program_TE.pdf
Conference Name: Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550 - 1750, Song, Art, Dance, Culture

The Persistence of Meme - ory: Imitation in Ballad Illustration (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: The Persistence of Meme - ory: Imitation in Ballad Illustration
Author: Megan Palmer-Browne
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/5/2014
Primary URL: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2014-2015/Making_program_TE.pdf
Conference Name: Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550 - 1750, Song, Art, Dance, Culture

Ballad Sheet Forensics, Preservation, and the Digital Archive (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Ballad Sheet Forensics, Preservation, and the Digital Archive
Author: Carl Stahmer
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/5/2014
Primary URL: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/conferences/2014-2015/Making_program_TE.pdf
Conference Name: Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550 - 1750, Song, Art, Dance, Culture

Broadside Ballads and Tactical Publics: ‘The Lady and the Blackamoor,’ 1570 - 1789 (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Broadside Ballads and Tactical Publics: ‘The Lady and the Blackamoor,’ 1570 - 1789
Abstract: N/A
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Date: 7/16/2013
Location: Australia National University

Master Class on Broadside Ballads (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: Master Class on Broadside Ballads
Abstract: N/A
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Date: 7/30/2013
Location: University of Sydney

Music with Minnesotans: Katie Sisneros (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Music with Minnesotans: Katie Sisneros
Writer: Steve Saruch
Director: Steve Saruch
Abstract: N/A
Date: 2/17/2014
Primary URL: http://www.classicalmpr.org/story/2014/02/18/music-with-minnesotans-katie-sisneros
Primary URL Description: Recording of Interview. Website also features 3 EBBA ballad recordings.
Access Model: Open
Format: Radio
Format: Digital File

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