Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Updates to the Sarah Orne Jewett bibliography

Updates to the Jewett bibliography at http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/jewettbib.html. Some of these entries include links to articles online at Coe College's excellent Jewett site.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Good news for early (1890-1915) music fans

The New York Times article "How Pop Sounded Before It Popped" discusses the newly released collection of early recorded music at the University of California. Many recordings are available for free, while the archive is putting out collections of others, such as a 3-volume set of Bert Williams's work. From the article:

Mayhew's record is just one of several thousand cylinders, the first commercially available recordings ever produced, that have recently become available free of charge to anyone with an Internet connection and some spare bandwidth. Last November, the Donald C. Davidson Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara, introduced the Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project Web site (cylinders.library.ucsb.edu), a collection of more than 6,000 cylinders converted to downloadable MP3's, WAV files and streaming audio. It's an astonishing trove of sounds: opera arias, comic monologues, marching bands, gospel quartets. Above all, there are the pop tunes churned out by Tin Pan Alley at the turn of the century: ragtime ditties, novelty songs, sentimental ballads and a dizzying range of dialect numbers performed by vaudeville's blackface comedians and other "ethnic impersonators."

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I'll be adding links to this from the music pages at the Timeline site.

Saturday, March 11, 2006

New bibliography on Onoto Watanna

New bibliography on Onoto Watanna.

Note: Thanks to the lucid and helpful explanations on the Sustainable Web Design site, I've been able to construct a style sheet that will allow hanging indents and will be updating the bibliographies to incorporate this style.

Saturday, March 04, 2006

Emily Dickinson page updated

In updating the Emily Dickinson page, I was struck by how many of the sites had chosen to lock up their information and require subscriptions:
  • The Emily Dickinson Journal used to have archived articles online; it's now available only through Project Muse (subscription database for Johns Hopkins U P journals)
  • The Emily Dickinson Bulletin, which is put out by the Emily Dickinson International Society, used to have some articles as well; now it has only the minutes of meetings.
  • Atlantic Unbound, which formerly gave free access to older Atlantic articles, is now for subscribers only.



There may be more information available than there was in 2000 or 2001, but you'll have to pay for it.

Friday, March 03, 2006

More Mary Wilkins Freeman

More links to works on the Mary Wilkins Freeman page, thanks in part to Project Gutenberg's new release of Jerome and other novels; many of the new links are to Jeff Kaylin's comprehensive MEWF site.

For anyone who's reading this, likes RSS feeds, and wants to know what's going on in Project Gutenberg, there's theoretically a feed at the Project Gutenberg site: http://www.gutenberg.org/. It doesn't seem to work, though, at least in Bloglines. If you use Bloglines and want to get a Project Gutenberg feed, here's the link: http://www.pokitty.com/tmp/pg.xml.

Yes, this is a little on the geeky and specialized side: this feed in Bloglines has 31 subscribers to The Shifted Librarian's 20,500.