Northwestern University (Evanston, IL 60208-0001)
Carolyn Caizzi (Project Director: July 2016 to February 2021)
PW-253873-17
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$297,000 (approved)
$296,997 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2017 – 4/30/2020
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The Digital Berkeley Folk Music Festival Collection
The Digital Berkeley Folk Music
Festival Collection is a project led by Northwestern University Libraries to
digitize, describe, and provide free online access to over 36,000
photographs, documents, posters, audio recordings, film footage, and ephemera
from the Berkeley Folk Music Festival, 1958-1970, for public and scholarly
exploration, examination, and experimentation. A robust and exhaustive
resource curated by the festival's founder and director, Barry Olivier, the
Berkeley Folk Music Festival Collection provides insight into the 1960s folk
music revival, high arts and vernacular culture, music festival operations
and culture, workshop pedagogy, and activism. Beyond that, the digitization,
description, and publication of this collection opens up possibilities of
exploring a wide range of humanities themes in 1960s America: tradition and
disruptive technology; performance and archiving of cultural heritage;
modernity, commerce, and community; bohemianism; higher education history;
and Cold War history and culture.
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