Review| December 01 2021 Metropolitan Opera Archives; Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century; Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture Metropolitan Opera Archives. URL: https://www.metopera.org/discover/archives/Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century. Iowa Digital Library, University of Iowa Libraries. URL: https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/tc/Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture. JoanneBernardi, Project Director. University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries. URL: https://rej.lib.rochester.edu/ C. A. Norling and Marian Wilson Kimber C. A. Norling and Marian Wilson Kimber C. A. NORLING is a PhD candidate in Musicology at the University of Iowa, where he studies topics related to opera production and reception in the United States. He is currently undertaking dissertation research regarding the civic density of operatic cultures in 1920s Chicago. His work can be found in Opera Journal and a forthcoming volume from Kent State University Press. He was the 2016 recipient of the National Opera Association’s Scholarly Paper Award. MARIAN WILSON KIMBER is Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa. She is the author of numerous publications on Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Hensel, and women in music. Her book The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word (University of Illinois Press, 2017) was the recipient of the Society for American Music’s H. Earle Johnson Subvention. Her current research focuses on the roles of women activists and women’s organizations in American music. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021) 74 (3): 689–701. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.3.689 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation C. A. Norling and Marian Wilson Kimber; Metropolitan Opera Archives; Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century; Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th-Century Visual and Material Culture. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2021; 74 (3): 689–701. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.3.689 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search The ever-growing body of topical research websites ranges from seemingly passive repositories of singular items with varying degrees of description to carefully curated sites that are in themselves acts of digital scholarship. The three sites considered in this review contain digitized artifacts that date primarily from the late nineteenth century through the present, though their contents are more significant for historical understandings of American musical life during the first half of the twentieth century. At the same time, all three collections transcend perceived boundaries, either through their transnational nature or the wide variety of their materials, or because the historical activities associated with their content have fallen between disciplinary fields. While the Metropolitan Opera Archives website highlights the history of a well-known cultural institution and is thus the most predictable in the kinds of comprehensive information it provides, Traveling Culture and Re-envisioning Japan, whose usefulness for music scholars is perhaps... You do not currently have access to this content.