Good Mourning, Burma! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC-BY-NC-SA

Presentation given as part of the session “Music encoding use-cases in US libraries: aims, pedagogy, and workflows” at the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held virtually on July 26-30, 2021.

ABSURDISTAN * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

The first section of the text of the unusual 1533 volume published by both Giovanni Battista and Teofilo Folengo: dialogues and prose pieces, inclduing the first of the Psalms commentaries published, together with a translation into English and annotations.

Surprising volume of what looks like biblical commentary but is parody and erotica

Oversized volume of biblical commentary published in 1543 (and again in 1549, 1557, 1585, 1594) that is actually a parody which features the erotic lexicon popular in its day

This article provides a short history of the methods and tools developed by the Pelagios initiative: a series of seven projects dedicated to linking digital historical resources based on the geographic places to which they relate and refer. The first section of the article situates the work within the wider field of semantic and geospatial…[Read more]

Glossary of approximately 11,800 Latin words with English translations from GB Folengo’s works (1543-1559)

In this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that’s contained in texts.

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in demGlas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from N.Nekrasov`s 1861 Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) – audio

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in dem Glas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from the poem Korobeiniki Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) by N.Nekrasov`s 1861 – sheetmusic

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – Christmas Merry Go Round
– great organ – audio

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – – Christmas Merry Go Round – great organ – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.
– said from Sicilian origin, not confirmed nor verified

BB 37 – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – 2010, 2nd. ed. – audio

BB 37 – Präludium Tochter Zion – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.

Pirate radio still flourishes in dense, multiethnic cities such as Brooklyn, New York, despite the rise of Web radio. For immigrants in particular, radio sounds mark identity and community and (re)claim social spaces of work, commutes, and the home. It is not only lack of access to digital technologies or broadband that shapes radio’s relevance, b…[Read more]

This study explores Jamaican popular music’s changing engagement with globally networked media technologies. It combines ethnographic analysis of the street dance as a site of urban poor and Black resistance to colonial institutions with an analysis of song lyrics about video cameras at street dances. Newly networked technologies for circulating…[Read more]