Updates to the American Authors, Literary Movements, and Brief Timeline pages as well as news and links about American literature before 1930.
Friday, March 31, 2006
Maria Cristina Mena
A bibliography and the beginnings of a page on Maria Cristina Mena have been added.
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
McTeague Bibliography; Bradstreet Bibliography
Updates to the McTeague bibliography and the Bradstreet bibliography.
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.
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:
There may be more information available than there was in 2000 or 2001, but you'll have to pay for it.
- 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.
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.
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