EBBA: Early Broadside Ballads at Houghton Library, Harvard University

FAIN: PW-51517-14

University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
Patricia Fumerton (Project Director: July 2013 to September 2017)

The digitization and incorporation into an electronic archive of images of more than 1,100 works of 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 5th stage of its digital English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA) and include Harvard University's Houghton Library broadside ballads--1,137 works. Houghton 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 cataloging according to TEI/XML/MARC standards, song recordings, informative essays, flexible search functions, and an improved technological infrastructure to both automate and enhance human cataloging of ballad "groupings" that are visually and textually similar. An expanded EBBA will open up new ways of understanding early modern popular culture, literature, art, music, and collectors.

Media Coverage

Broadsides for Broadband: Digitizing the People’s Literature of the 17th Century (Media Coverage)
Author(s): Allison Meier
Publication: Hyperallergic
Date: 5/14/2015
Abstract: Considered the “people’s literature” in the 17th century, broadside ballads were sold for a penny or halfpenny, their pairing of a comic or satiric song alongside a woodblock illustration making them popular bawdy amusement across classes.
URL: http://hyperallergic.com/201120/broadsides-for-broadband-digitizing-the-peoples-literature-of-the-17th-century/

Associated Products

MUS 15 Ballad Presentation (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: MUS 15 Ballad Presentation
Abstract: A brief overview of sung street poetry and its various social functions in Early Modern England.
Author: Erik Bell
Date: 4/9/2015
Location: Lotte Lehman Concert Hall, UC Santa Barbara, California

The Digital Recovery of Moving Media: EBBA and the Early English Broadside Ballad (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: The Digital Recovery of Moving Media: EBBA and the Early English Broadside Ballad
Abstract: N/A
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Date: 3/7/2014
Location: UC Santa Barbara

Why Broadside Ballads? (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Why Broadside Ballads?
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Date: 7/7/2015
Conference Name: “The Making of a Broadside Ballad: Craft Knowledge, Print History, and Digital Publication,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

BIBFLOW: Analysis of Library Workflows in a BIBFRAME Cataloguing Environment (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: BIBFLOW: Analysis of Library Workflows in a BIBFRAME Cataloguing Environment
Abstract: N/A
Author: Carl Stahmer
Date: 5/1/2015
Location: Oakland, CA

BIBFLOW: Native Linked Data Cataloguing with BIBFRAME and Kuali-OLE (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: BIBFLOW: Native Linked Data Cataloguing with BIBFRAME and Kuali-OLE
Author: Carl Stahmer
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/1/2015
Conference Name: Coalition for Networked Information, Seattle, WA

BIBFLOW: Overview of IMLS BIBFRAME Implementation Investigation (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: BIBFLOW: Overview of IMLS BIBFRAME Implementation Investigation
Author: Carl Stahmer
Abstract: N/A
Date: 4/5/2015
Conference Name: Quarterly Meeting of the University of California Libraries Strategic Action Group 3: Collection Building and Management (SAG3)

Modes and Methods of 21st Century Bibliography (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Modes and Methods of 21st Century Bibliography
Author: Carl Stahmer
Abstract: N/A
Date: 5/5/2015
Conference Name: Digital Antiquarian Conference, American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA

Humanistic Content Based Image Recognition (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Humanistic Content Based Image Recognition
Author: Carl Stahmer
Abstract: N/A
Date: 5/10/2015
Conference Name: Annual Conference of the Shakespeare Association of America, “Form, Complexity, and Computation” Seminar, Vancouver, BC

'Finding ‘Compositors Judgment’: Transcribing Broadside Ballads for Digital Media (Article)
Title: 'Finding ‘Compositors Judgment’: Transcribing Broadside Ballads for Digital Media
Author: Charlotte Becker
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/charlotte-becker-why-a-facsimile-transcription
Primary URL Description: Direct Link to the article
Secondary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/index
Secondary URL Description: Front page for the issue.
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: EMC Imprint, "The Making of a Broadside Ballad"
Publisher: UCSB Early Modern Center

Why the Broadside Ballad (Article)
Title: Why the Broadside Ballad
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/why-broadside-ballads
Primary URL Description: Link to the introductory article
Secondary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/index
Secondary URL Description: Link to the issue's front page.
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: EMC Imprint, "The Making of a Broadside Ballad"
Publisher: UCSB Early Modern Center

Making an Impression: Creating the Woodcut in Early Modern Broadside Ballads (Article)
Title: Making an Impression: Creating the Woodcut in Early Modern Broadside Ballads
Author: Kristen McCants
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/kristen-mccants-making-an-impression-creating-the-woodcut-in-early-modern-broadside-ballads
Primary URL Description: Link to the article.
Secondary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/index
Secondary URL Description: Link to the issue's front page.
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: EMC Imprint, "The Making of a Broadside Ballad"
Publisher: UCSB Early Modern Center

Cutting through the Wormhole: Art & Craft in Early Modern England (Article)
Title: Cutting through the Wormhole: Art & Craft in Early Modern England
Author: Megan Palmer
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/cutting-through-the-wormhole-early-modern-time-craft-amp-media-1
Primary URL Description: Link to article
Secondary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/index
Secondary URL Description: Link to issue's front page.
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: EMC Imprint, "The Making of a Broadside Ballad"
Publisher: UCSB Early Modern Center

Fitting Texts to Tunes: Separation, Reconciliation, and Melodic Malleability (Article)
Title: Fitting Texts to Tunes: Separation, Reconciliation, and Melodic Malleability
Author: Erik Bell
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/erik-bell-matching-ballads-to-tunes
Primary URL Description: Link to article.
Secondary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/index
Secondary URL Description: Link to issue's front page.
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: EMC Imprint, "The Making of a Broadside Ballad"
Publisher: UCSB Early Modern Center

'To Its Own Proper Tune': Finding Tunes for British Broadside Ballads (Article)
Title: 'To Its Own Proper Tune': Finding Tunes for British Broadside Ballads
Author: Caroline Bennet
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/caroline-bennett-finding-tunes
Primary URL Description: Link to article.
Secondary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/index
Secondary URL Description: Link to issue's front page.
Access Model: Open Access
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: EMC Imprint, "The Making of a Broadside Ballad"
Publisher: UCSB Early Modern Center

The Making of a Broadside Ballad (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: The Making of a Broadside Ballad
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Author: Andrew Griffin
Author: Carl Stahmer
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://press.emcimprint.english.ucsb.edu/the-making-of-a-broadside-ballad/index
Access Model: Open Access

Collectors, Consumers, and the Making of Seventeenth-Century English Ballad Publics: From Networks to Spheres (Book Section)
Title: Collectors, Consumers, and the Making of Seventeenth-Century English Ballad Publics: From Networks to Spheres
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Editor: Marlene Eberhart
Editor: Paul Yachnin
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/forms-association
Access Model: N/A
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Book Title: Forms of Association: Making Publics in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 978-1-62534-16

'Digging ‘Veritable Dunghills’: The Re-Appreciation of English Broadside Ballads (Book Section)
Title: 'Digging ‘Veritable Dunghills’: The Re-Appreciation of English Broadside Ballads
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Editor: Catherine Bates
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Access Model: N/A
Publisher: Blackwell-Wiley Press
Book Title: Blackwell Companion to Renaissance Poetry

The English Broadside Ballad Archive: From Theory to Practice (Book Section)
Title: The English Broadside Ballad Archive: From Theory to Practice
Author: Kris McAbee
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Author: Simone Chess
Author: Tassie Gniady
Editor: Ian Frederick Moulton
Editor: Heidi Brayman Hackel
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2015
Primary URL: https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Options-for-Teaching/Teaching-Early-Modern-English-Literature-from-the-Archives
Access Model: N/A
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Book Title: Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives
ISBN: 9781603291569

Lasting Impressions of the Common Woodcut (Book Section)
Title: Lasting Impressions of the Common Woodcut
Author: Megan Palmer
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Editor: Catherine Richardson
Editor: David Gaimster
Editor: Tara Hamling
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Access Model: N/A
Publisher: Ashgate Press
Book Title: Ashgate Research Companion to Material Culture in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9781409462699

Moving Media, Tactical Publics: English Broadside Ballads in the Early Modern Period (Book)
Title: Moving Media, Tactical Publics: English Broadside Ballads in the Early Modern Period
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2017
Access Model: N/A
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Samuel Pepys and the Making of Ballad Publics (Article)
Title: Samuel Pepys and the Making of Ballad Publics
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Access Model: N/A
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Intersections Yearbook for Early Modern Studies
Publisher: Brill

‘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: 7/1/2014
Conference Name: Proceedings of Conference, “Ephemera: Current and Future”

Great Fishes and Monstrous Men (Article)
Title: Great Fishes and Monstrous Men
Author: Patricia Fumerton
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Access Model: N/A
Periodical Title: Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
Publisher: Penn State University Press

Making MARC Agnostic: Transforming the English Short Titles Catalogue for the Linked Data Universe (Book Section)
Title: Making MARC Agnostic: Transforming the English Short Titles Catalogue for the Linked Data Universe
Author: Carl Stahmer
Editor: Ed Jones
Editor: Michele Seikel
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2016
Access Model: N/A
Publisher: Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Publishing
Book Title: Linking Data for Libraries and Other Cultural Organizations
ISBN: N/A

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/
Website: http://www.carlstahmer.com

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