We're speaking up today. Help us say it loud? Projects like ours + Douglass Day are made possible by public investments in our culture & humanity. We can't do this without the National Endowment for the Humanities + NEH Digital Humanities. Call your reps today! Our video from the last round: youtube.com/watch?v=sX3LHK…

Our resourceful solution to minimizing transcription eye strain on songbook index pages? An @EmoryCDS bookmark inched across each line of the image. One. dot. at. a. time. #soundingspirit #OCR #digitalhumanities #dotdotdot

THE LONE PILGRIM offers 19th-century social distancing insights. Pictured here from the Original Sacred Harp (1911), this John Ellis text invites us to meet "the contagion" – but not one another. #soundingspirit #washyourhands #lonebutnotalone

The work continues! Project team members at @EmoryCDS working from home in Decatur, Georgia, and Mars Hill, North Carolina, met recently with Center for Popular Music's Rachel Morris. Do our post-processed scans match the songbooks Rachel's team digitized? #soundingspirit #remotework

"Oh when will the period appear / When I shall unite in your song?" Singing for sequestered souls with Sacred Harp singer Coy Ivey leading "Panting for Heaven" at Liberty Baptist Church in Henagar, Alabama. #soundingspirit #sacredharp #socialdistancing youtu.be/_wGYkpuOcgI

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the inaugural Sounding Spirit digital library, featuring 22 songbooks and hymnals representing the variety of vernacular southern sacred song published from 1850 to 1925. You can browse these books at: library.soundingspirit.org.

The Sounding Spirit initiative affirms the full humanity of Black lives, the power and resiliency of Black communities, and the creative and intellectual brilliance of Black expression. #blacklivesmatter #soundingjustice

We are very excited to be part of the Sounding Spirit digital library project. You can look at the digitized songbooks and hymnals published across the southern United States from 1850 to 1925 here: library.soundingspirit.org

I’m excited about the launch of Readux 2, developed by @EmoryCDS w/ Ben W. Brumfield & Sara Brumfield. Readux supports #teaching & #research w/ digitized books and uses #iiif to build federated thematic collections. Sounding Spirit uses Readux for our digital library, and you could too!

#Amen! Thanks to the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music of @UKFineArts for joining us in creating the Sounding Spirit Digital Library and to the University of Kentucky News for publishing this lovely article on the project.

Many thanks to Atla for this lovely write-up about our digital library. Check out their collections and resources at dl.atla.com. atla.com/blog/sounding-…

This exploration of the unacknowledged labor of wrongfully convicted Black people who died building western North Carolina's Swannanoa Tunnel is both reckoning and requiem. Hear James William Love sing: "Somebody died. Somebody’s dead." #soundingspirit bittersoutherner.com/2020/somebody-…

We are pleased to welcome Sounding Spirit as the newest contributor to the Atla Digital Library! This project spans the archives of PittsTheologyLibrary, the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the UniversityofKentucky, Southern Seminary, & Center for Popular Music at MTSU. atla.com/blog/atla-digi…

Thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities, we will soon be expanding the Sounding Spirit digital library. Ready? Set? Digitize! Congratulations to our wonderful partners joining us in creating new archives of southern sacred musics. neh.gov/news/neh-annou…

Pitts is excited to contribute its expertise and many works from its hymnody collection to this important digital project! #digitization #hymnals

We are very excited to be a part of this project. Congratulations to Sounding Spirit on their National Endowment for the Humanities grant! 🎶📚

The Center for Popular Music is proud to announce its participation in Sounding Spirit, which has just received funding of $346,781 from the National Endowment for the Humanities! scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/sounding-…

Congrats to Friday Fellow Meredith Doster (Class of 2017-19) on major federal funding awarded to Sounding Spirit where she serves as Managing Editor & Project Manager. What does fellowship at work mean? How does relationship (w/maung🐆) show up? Read more: fridayfellowship.org/news/563913/Fe…

Many thanks to UK Libraries for this celebration of our National Endowment for the Humanities-funded collaborations on the expanding digital library. We're delighted to be partnering with good colleagues and great collections!

We can't wait to start the next phase of our digital library this fall. Let the digitization begin! #bookbybook #digitalhumanities #soundingamoreperfectunion