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B roadside ballads were mass-marketed, multi-media artifacts that created cultural meaning at the intersection of text, song, art, and dance. is conference, growing out of the English Broadside Ballad Archive Project at University of California, Santa Barbara, brings together experts from many disciplines to probe the relevance of early modern broadside ballads, especially to questions of media, preservation, authorship, authority, and audience. LOCATION: Ahmanson Room, Brody Botanical Center SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 2014 8:30 Registration & Coffee 9:00 Session 3 Communities of Ballads Moderator: Shannon Meyer (University of California, Santa Barbara) Adam Fox (University of Edinburgh) “Jockey and Jenny: English Broadside Ballads and the Invention of Scottishness” Mark Hailwood (St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) “e Honest Tradesman’s Honour: Occupational Identity in English Broadside Ballads” 11:00- 12:30 Exhibit Huntington Broadside Ballads and Woodcuts (in the Floralegium) Interpreter: Stephen Tabor (e Huntington) 11:30 Lunch FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2014 8:30 Registration & Coffee 9:30 Welcome Steve Hindle (e Huntington) Remarks Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Coming Alive: Archiving the Huntington Ballads” 10:00 Session 1 Anonymity and Truth Moderator: Charlotte Becker (University of California, Santa Barbara) Frances E. Dolan (University of California, Davis) “Mopsa’s Method: Truth Claims, Ballads, and Print” Eric Nebeker (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Common Truths: Poetic Authority and Anonymous Voices” 12:00 Lunch (extended by “A Taste of Song”) Conductor: Katherine Brokaw (University of California, Merced) Musicians: Leeza Bautista, Erik Bell, Caroline Bennet, Cristina Lord, Christopher Marsh, Lucie Skeaping, Bruce Smith 2:00 Session 2 Music and Performance Moderator: Matthew Smith (Azusa Pacific University) Bruce Smith (University of Southern California) “Putting the Ball Back in Ballads” Angela McShane (Victoria & Albert Museum) “‘How happy the State where no discords are breeding’: Disharmony and 17 th -Century ‘Politopop’” Lucie Skeaping (BBC, London) and Roger Clegg (De Montfort University) “‘Getting Jiggy With It’: Recuperating the eatrical in Dialogue Ballads and Dramatic Jigs on the Early Modern Stage” Letter Woodcut of Queen Elizabeth; Britwell Collection, Huntington Library. 12:30 Session 4 Mobile Pictures Moderator: Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine) Megan Palmer Browne (University of California, Santa Barbara) “e Persistence of Meme-ory: Imitation in Ballad Illustration” Christopher Marsh (Queen’s University, Belfast) “Woodcuts and their Wanderings in Early Modern England” 2:30 Break 2:45 Session 5 e Preservation of Ballads in a Digital Age Moderator: Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California, Riverside) Michael Heaney (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) “A New Tune for an Old Ditty: Ballads on the Web” Carl Stahmer (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Ballad Sheet Forensics, Preservation, and the Digital Archive” 4:45 Conclusion Patricia Fumerton “Good night good people all” Name(s): Address: Email/Phone: Affiliation: Conference registration and meals by reservation only. No confirmation will be sent. Conference registration fee ....................................$ 25.00 (Students free) Buffet lunch (April 4) ............................................$ 16.50 Buffet lunch (April 5) ............................................$ 16.50 TOTAL .................$ Vegetarian (check one) ❒ Yes ❒ No Seating for this event is limited. Registrations will be handled on a first come, first served basis. You are advised to register as soon as possible. Please mail form and check payable to “e Huntington” to: Juan Gomez, e Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108. PHONE: (626) 405-3432 EMAIL: [email protected] Please note: Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library. is conference is funded by e Huntington’s William French Smith Endowment Mr. and Mrs. Frank Logan USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute With additional support from University of California, Santa Barbara and National Endowment for the Humanities St. George and the Dragon; Huntington Library.
Transcript of Thfi fiffiffffifffifiˆ - UC Santa Barbara
Broadside ballads were mass-marketed, multi-media artifacts that created cultural
meaning at the intersection of text, song, art, and dance. This conference, growing out of the English Broadside Ballad Archive Project at University of California, Santa Barbara, brings together experts from many disciplines to probe the relevance of early modern broadside ballads, especially to questions of media, preservation, authorship, authority, and audience.
location: Ahmanson Room, Brody Botanical Center
S A T U R D A Y , A P R I L 5 , 2 0 1 48:30 Registration & Coffee
9:00 Session 3 Communities of Ballads
Moderator: Shannon Meyer (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Adam Fox (University of Edinburgh) “Jockey and Jenny: English Broadside Ballads and the Invention of Scottishness”
Mark Hailwood (St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) “The Honest Tradesman’s Honour: Occupational Identity in English Broadside Ballads”
11:00-12:30 Exhibit
Huntington Broadside Ballads and Woodcuts (in the Floralegium)
Interpreter: Stephen Tabor (The Huntington)
11:30 Lunch
F R I D A Y , A P R I L 4 , 2 0 1 4
8:30 Registration & Coffee9:30 Welcome
Steve Hindle (The Huntington) Remarks
Patricia Fumerton (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Coming Alive: Archiving the Huntington Ballads”
10:00 Session 1 Anonymity and Truth
Moderator: Charlotte Becker (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Frances E. Dolan (University of California, Davis) “Mopsa’s Method: Truth Claims, Ballads, and Print”
Eric Nebeker (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Common Truths: Poetic Authority and Anonymous Voices”
12:00 Lunch (extended by “A Taste of Song”)
Conductor: Katherine Brokaw (University of California, Merced)
Musicians: Leeza Bautista, Erik Bell, Caroline Bennet, Cristina Lord, Christopher Marsh, Lucie Skeaping, Bruce Smith
2:00 Session 2 Music and Performance
Moderator: Matthew Smith (Azusa Pacific University)
Bruce Smith (University of Southern California) “Putting the Ball Back in Ballads”
Angela McShane (Victoria & Albert Museum) “‘How happy the State where no discords are breeding’: Disharmony and 17th-Century ‘Politopop’”
Lucie Skeaping (BBC, London) and Roger Clegg (De Montfort University) “‘Getting Jiggy With It’: Recuperating the Theatrical in Dialogue Ballads and Dramatic Jigs on the Early Modern Stage”
Letter Woodcut of Queen Elizabeth; Britwell Collection, Huntington Library.
12:30 Session 4 Mobile Pictures
Moderator: Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine)
Megan Palmer Browne (University of California, Santa Barbara) “The Persistence of Meme-ory: Imitation in Ballad Illustration”
Christopher Marsh (Queen’s University, Belfast) “Woodcuts and their Wanderings in Early Modern England”
2:30 Break
2:45 Session 5 The Preservation of Ballads in a Digital Age
Moderator: Heidi Brayman Hackel (University of California, Riverside)
Michael Heaney (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) “A New Tune for an Old Ditty: Ballads on the Web”
Carl Stahmer (University of California, Santa Barbara) “Ballad Sheet Forensics, Preservation, and the Digital Archive”
4:45 Conclusion Patricia Fumerton “Good night good people all”
Name(s):
Address:
Email/Phone: Affiliation: Conference registration and meals by reservation only. No confirmation will be sent.Conference registration fee ....................................$ 25.00 (Students free)Buffet lunch (April 4) ............................................$ 16.50 Buffet lunch (April 5) ............................................$ 16.50 T O T A L .................$Vegetarian (check one) ❒ Yes ❒ No
Seating for this event is limited. Registrations will be handled on a first come, first served basis. You are advised to register as soon as possible.Please mail form and check payable to “The Huntington” to: Juan Gomez, The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108.
PHONE: (626) 405-3432 EMAIL: [email protected] note: Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library.
song, art, dance, cultureLiving English Broadside Ballads, 1550-1750:
This conference is funded byThe Huntington’s William French Smith Endowment
Mr. and Mrs. Frank LoganUSC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute
With additional support fromUniversity of California, Santa Barbara and National Endowment for the Humanities
song, art, dance, cultureLiving English Broadside Ballads, 1550-1750:
St. George and the Dragon; Huntington Library.
