Reviews: Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads and English Broadside Ballad Archive

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Other| December 01 2014 Reviews: Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads and English Broadside Ballad Archive Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads. Mike Heaney, Director. URL: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/English Broadside Ballad Archive. Patricia Fumerton, Director. URL: http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ Amanda Eubanks Winkler Amanda Eubanks Winkler Amanda Eubanks Winkler is Associate Professor of Music History and Cultures and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on English theater music of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries. She is the author of Music for Macbeth (A-R Editions, 2004), and O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the Melancholic, and the Mad on the Seventeenth-Century English stage (Indiana University Press, 2006). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2014) 67 (3): 848–866. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2014.67.3.848 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Amanda Eubanks Winkler; Reviews: Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads and English Broadside Ballad Archive. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2014; 67 (3): 848–866. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2014.67.3.848 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search When I began my dissertation on seventeenth-century English music and drama in 1996 at the University of Michigan, online databases were just becoming available to scholars. I was fortunate to attend an institution that was directly engaged in these new digital initiatives, and U of M provided cutting-edge resources to those who sought new ways of doing scholarship.1 My interaction with these new web-based tools, particularly the Early English Prose Drama Database and the Early English Verse Drama Database, profoundly shaped my dissertation and first book, as they allowed me to do keyword searches of a wide corpus of drama.2 If I wanted to find all the plays in which a particular character appeared (Venus), I could easily do so with a few keystrokes. I could even couple my initial search term (“Venus”) with another search term (“sing,” “music”) to locate scenes in which a singing Venus appeared... You do not currently have access to this content.