Broadside Ballad Survey/Collection/Analysis
Since this is a DH project, I envision this project utilizing tools of audio visual storytelling in order to guide readers through a more immersive experience pertaining to broadside ballads. Particularly, I imagine finding popular ballad tunes and linking them to ballad texts. Perhaps also finding similar ballads performed in different tones/moods/timbre etc. Therefore, this project will not only encompass a close reading and collection of broadside ballad texts, but will interdisciplinarily approach the study of these texts through a musicological lens as well. This means that sound, visual cues, and literary techniques all work in concert to build a dynamic and multilayered cultural artifact in need of analysis and study.