Grants and Contracts Details
Description
The University of Kentucky Libraries is partnering with Emory University and other institutions
on an NEH Humanities Collections and References Resources Implementation grant to develop
the Sounding Spirit digital library. This virtual humanities collection will provide a single point
of access to approximately 750 significant books of vernacular sacred music from the southern
United States published between 1850 and 1925 and support rich engagement with these
seminal, yet under-collected works. This corpus of gospel songbooks, spirituals collections,
shape-note tunebooks, and hymnals offers rich insights into the lived social and religious
experience of Americans who used these songbooks to navigate the turn-of-the-twentieth-century
musical landscape and a modernizing nation state. The UK Libraries will contribute by providing
preservation quality digital scans of approximately 250 selected books from our holdings. The
digital scans will be added to the Sounding Spirit digital library maintained by Emory
University’s Center for Digital Scholarship.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/21 → 8/31/24 |
Funding
- Emory University: $15,380.00
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