Tuesday, 14 August 2012
The SAS-Space blog has moved
Head over to SAS Blogs, a new service from the School of Advanced Study, for all the latest news from SAS-Space. Alternatively, choose a post from the list on the right.
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Collection of the Month: Ruth First Papers
Our featured collection for June is the Ruth First Papers collection: the collected notes and writings of Ruth First, anti-apartheid activist, investigative journalist, and
scholar. First worked her entire life to end apartheid in South Africa. She was exiled from South Africa in 1964, with her husband, the prominent South African communist Joe Slovo, and their children. In 1982, while working in Mozambique, Ruth First was killed by a letter bomb sent by the South African secret service. 2012 is the thirtieth anniversary of Ruth First’s murder.
Part of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the project will also host a major symposium on First's work in London on June 7th: see the project site for further details.
The digitisation of the data is ongoing, but the first fruits of the project are now available. They include published writings on Gaddafi's Libya, unpublished writings and correspondence, plus some particularly fascinating scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings from the late 1940s.
Part of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the project will also host a major symposium on First's work in London on June 7th: see the project site for further details.
The digitisation of the data is ongoing, but the first fruits of the project are now available. They include published writings on Gaddafi's Libya, unpublished writings and correspondence, plus some particularly fascinating scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings from the late 1940s.
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Collection of the Month: IGRS Visiting Fellows
For May it is the turn of the collection of research papers from Visiting Fellows to the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies.
As one might expect, it is an eclectic mix, with work on topics as diverse as student protest in Italy, Muslim identity in contemporary German fiction, and 'The Wicker Man.' During 2011, papers were downloaded on average 40 times each, with the most popular item, on the operettas of Franz Lehar, being accessed some 93 times. The collection is an excellent demonstration of the range of research that is carried out in association with the School.
Further information on the Visiting Fellowships at the IGRS is available on the Institute site.
As one might expect, it is an eclectic mix, with work on topics as diverse as student protest in Italy, Muslim identity in contemporary German fiction, and 'The Wicker Man.' During 2011, papers were downloaded on average 40 times each, with the most popular item, on the operettas of Franz Lehar, being accessed some 93 times. The collection is an excellent demonstration of the range of research that is carried out in association with the School.
Further information on the Visiting Fellowships at the IGRS is available on the Institute site.
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Using the repository for data: LIPARM
We've always taken a catholic view of the format of material that SAS-Space should hold, but the bulk of our holdings is still nonetheless 'traditional' PDF files. I'm very pleased to note a recent deposit of data from the LiPARM (Linking Parliamentary Records through Metadata) project in the IHR.
Funded by the JISC, the project will allow for the first time the federated searching and browsing of UK and Ireland Parliamentary papers by defining and implementing a unified metadata strategy for historical and contemporary parliamentary digitisation projects. The project has defined a generic XML schema for parliamentary metadata, along with controlled vocabularies for key components of this metadata, and will produce a platform for a union catalogue of these materials based on the records created. Key collections will be enhanced to allow their content to be accessed via the catalogue.
The project has recently deposited the XML schema, an example file, and XML lists of constituencies, Acts and members for Westminster and Stormont. View the data here.
As well as this particular data being now available and in the public domain for reuse, it gives us food for thought about ways and means of providing more dynamic ways of using data that is already in SAS-Space.
Funded by the JISC, the project will allow for the first time the federated searching and browsing of UK and Ireland Parliamentary papers by defining and implementing a unified metadata strategy for historical and contemporary parliamentary digitisation projects. The project has defined a generic XML schema for parliamentary metadata, along with controlled vocabularies for key components of this metadata, and will produce a platform for a union catalogue of these materials based on the records created. Key collections will be enhanced to allow their content to be accessed via the catalogue.
The project has recently deposited the XML schema, an example file, and XML lists of constituencies, Acts and members for Westminster and Stormont. View the data here.
As well as this particular data being now available and in the public domain for reuse, it gives us food for thought about ways and means of providing more dynamic ways of using data that is already in SAS-Space.
Friday, 30 March 2012
Societies of Southern Africa: seminar papers series
Collection of the Month for April is the series of collected seminar papers from the Societies of Southern Africa seminar, which ran at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies from 1969 until the 1980s. The papers were published in twenty volumes, and we will be adding these to SAS-Space over the next few weeks. The first few are now live, including a 1969 paper by Albie Sachs, scholar and activist, and subsequently Judge in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, who completed a doctorate at Sussex University in the 1960s, which formed the basis of this paper, and his 1974 book Justice in South Africa.
Here, Professor Shula Marks, former Director of the ICS and founder of the series, reflects on the series and its seminal importance for students of southern African history and politics at a critical time. A fuller version of this reflection is also available.
Professor Marks writes:
"In a very real sense the seminars at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies were the equivalent for the social sciences of the laboratory for the natural and hard sciences – a place where ideas were tested and probed, expanded and at times jettisoned. Scholars – post-graduate students and staff - from all over London and often from all over the UK – were drawn to the Institute – to exchange research with one another and the many visitors to the Institute from all over the Commonwealth.
"It was with this model in mind that I set out in 1969 to establish a new seminar at the Institute on `The societies of southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’; from the papers that are reproduced here you will get some taste of its proceedings, though not of the lively discussions which characterised them. The intellectual mix was eclectic and heady: as Colin Bundy has remarked, the seminar was:
… a rich seedbed for a critical, self-consciously revisionist flowering of southern African scholarship, and especially South African, history. Its activities were fertilised by a number of currents: by British social historians, by French Marxist anthropologists, and by comparative history. One does not have to dig very deep in the first couple of volumes of collected papers to discern the influence of E P Thompson, Barrington Moore, Meillasoux, Genovese, Gunder Frank, and so on.
"To this list I would add the importance of the proximity of the recently established department of African History at SOAS, not least because it did not allow us – mostly radical white South Africans - to forget that South Africa was still in Africa, that any history of South Africa had to be the history of all its peoples, and that we had to address the most profound silence in the historiography of southern Africa, the silence of its African majority. In the 1960s there was no South African university teaching African history – though this was to change through the 1970s in part as historians who trained at SOAS and elsewhere in the UK and the USA began to filter back into university positions in South Africa.
"In many ways the seminar was launched at exactly the right moment – more by serendipity than by good management By 1969, the pall of quiescence that seemed to hang over South Africa after Sharpeville was beginning to show cracks; with the emergence of the Black Consciousness movement and splits in the façade of Afrikaner unity, there was room for more open discussion of Southern Africa. But what made the Societies of Southern Africa Seminar special was the presence, mostly, but not only, in London, of a substantial number of academics in a variety of fields; most were inevitably South African but the focus was always importantly southern and not simply South African, with papers on all the countries of the region. Many of its participants over the years had left South Africa – or been forced to leave – for political reasons during the era of apartheid, and were still passionately engaged in trying to understand the nature of southern African society. Many of the issues addressed could not be stated openly let alone answered in South African universities at the time. As a result, as fresh waves of South African students, émigrés and exiles came to the UK, the seminar remained in touch with what has happening in South Africa, and was in a state of constant renewal. This gave its proceedings a particular edge even when the subject matter was remote - in time if not in place - from their immediate concerns.
"In retrospect it is astonishing how many young and not so young South Africans who were later to make their mark passed through the doors of the ICS – no fewer than four of South Africa's future high court and constitutional court judges were among its student audience in those years. In South Africa itself the volumes of the Collected Seminar Papers reproduced here were widely – if secretly – read by succeeding cohorts of young students in South Africa in the 1970s and 80s. Today, however, as we greet the digital recording of the ICS seminar papers perhaps we can be forgiven for rejoicing in the way in which this project will nonetheless safeguard our past.
Shula Marks, March 2012
Here, Professor Shula Marks, former Director of the ICS and founder of the series, reflects on the series and its seminal importance for students of southern African history and politics at a critical time. A fuller version of this reflection is also available.
Professor Marks writes:
"In a very real sense the seminars at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies were the equivalent for the social sciences of the laboratory for the natural and hard sciences – a place where ideas were tested and probed, expanded and at times jettisoned. Scholars – post-graduate students and staff - from all over London and often from all over the UK – were drawn to the Institute – to exchange research with one another and the many visitors to the Institute from all over the Commonwealth.
"It was with this model in mind that I set out in 1969 to establish a new seminar at the Institute on `The societies of southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’; from the papers that are reproduced here you will get some taste of its proceedings, though not of the lively discussions which characterised them. The intellectual mix was eclectic and heady: as Colin Bundy has remarked, the seminar was:
… a rich seedbed for a critical, self-consciously revisionist flowering of southern African scholarship, and especially South African, history. Its activities were fertilised by a number of currents: by British social historians, by French Marxist anthropologists, and by comparative history. One does not have to dig very deep in the first couple of volumes of collected papers to discern the influence of E P Thompson, Barrington Moore, Meillasoux, Genovese, Gunder Frank, and so on.
"To this list I would add the importance of the proximity of the recently established department of African History at SOAS, not least because it did not allow us – mostly radical white South Africans - to forget that South Africa was still in Africa, that any history of South Africa had to be the history of all its peoples, and that we had to address the most profound silence in the historiography of southern Africa, the silence of its African majority. In the 1960s there was no South African university teaching African history – though this was to change through the 1970s in part as historians who trained at SOAS and elsewhere in the UK and the USA began to filter back into university positions in South Africa.
"In many ways the seminar was launched at exactly the right moment – more by serendipity than by good management By 1969, the pall of quiescence that seemed to hang over South Africa after Sharpeville was beginning to show cracks; with the emergence of the Black Consciousness movement and splits in the façade of Afrikaner unity, there was room for more open discussion of Southern Africa. But what made the Societies of Southern Africa Seminar special was the presence, mostly, but not only, in London, of a substantial number of academics in a variety of fields; most were inevitably South African but the focus was always importantly southern and not simply South African, with papers on all the countries of the region. Many of its participants over the years had left South Africa – or been forced to leave – for political reasons during the era of apartheid, and were still passionately engaged in trying to understand the nature of southern African society. Many of the issues addressed could not be stated openly let alone answered in South African universities at the time. As a result, as fresh waves of South African students, émigrés and exiles came to the UK, the seminar remained in touch with what has happening in South Africa, and was in a state of constant renewal. This gave its proceedings a particular edge even when the subject matter was remote - in time if not in place - from their immediate concerns.
"In retrospect it is astonishing how many young and not so young South Africans who were later to make their mark passed through the doors of the ICS – no fewer than four of South Africa's future high court and constitutional court judges were among its student audience in those years. In South Africa itself the volumes of the Collected Seminar Papers reproduced here were widely – if secretly – read by succeeding cohorts of young students in South Africa in the 1970s and 80s. Today, however, as we greet the digital recording of the ICS seminar papers perhaps we can be forgiven for rejoicing in the way in which this project will nonetheless safeguard our past.
Shula Marks, March 2012
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
W G Hart Workshop Papers
Collection of the Month for March is the collection of previously unpublished papers from the W. G. Hart Legal Workshop. The workshop is a major annual legal research event organised and hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Beginning in 1981, this eponymous workshop series, subsidised by funds from the W. G. Hart Bequest, has focused on a wide range of comparative and international legal issues and topical interests, and we're delighted to have begun to make selected past papers available in SAS-Space.
In addition, video recordings of the 2010 event are now available. The 2012 event, on 'Globalisation, criminal law and criminal justice' will take place in June.
In addition, video recordings of the 2010 event are now available. The 2012 event, on 'Globalisation, criminal law and criminal justice' will take place in June.
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Research papers on the Americas
Collection of the Month for February is a growing collection of occasional research papers from the Institute for the Study of the Americas, and the Institute of Latin American Studies (one of the two institutions that came together to form ISA), recently digitised. Once finished, we'll have added 85 new papers, dating from the late 1980s to the present. The collection has particular strengths in studies of Brazil and Argentina, but also in the history and economic development of central and south America.
Tuesday, 10 January 2012
Gounod in the Midi
New for 2012 is a series focussing each month on a particular collection of material within SAS-Space.
For January, we're featuring a new collection of critical writing on a series of key performances of Charles Gounod's 1864 opera Mireille in the Roman arenas of the Midi: at Arles. Nîmes, St-Rémy and Marseille between 1899 and 1914. The performances are of particular note as the opera itself is set in Provence, and indeed Act 2 takes place outside the same amphitheatre at Arles.
It is part of the larger Francophone Music Criticism project, in association with the Institute of Musical Research.
For January, we're featuring a new collection of critical writing on a series of key performances of Charles Gounod's 1864 opera Mireille in the Roman arenas of the Midi: at Arles. Nîmes, St-Rémy and Marseille between 1899 and 1914. The performances are of particular note as the opera itself is set in Provence, and indeed Act 2 takes place outside the same amphitheatre at Arles.
It is part of the larger Francophone Music Criticism project, in association with the Institute of Musical Research.
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
History in Education: dispersed data delivery in action
I'm delighted to be able to draw attention to the data collection of the History in Education project, recently concluded at the IHR. The project investigated the major curricular changes in history over the last century, and also the
changing experience of history at the chalkface in English state schools.
It is another successful example of a research project within the School of Advanced Study using SAS-Space as a solution for their needs in data management and preservation, whilst maintaining their own distinct web presence which draws content from SAS-Space as it needs it. The collection of interviews and digitised samples of schoolwork can be accessed in two ways. Users of the project site can access the data using a browse interface tailored to the project. Users of SAS-Space can access the whole collection directly, and may also stumble upon data from the project whilst searching SAS-Space for something else.
Another example of this dispersed model is the Francophone Music Criticism project, whose data is similarly held in SAS-Space, but also accessed from the project's own search engine.
It is another successful example of a research project within the School of Advanced Study using SAS-Space as a solution for their needs in data management and preservation, whilst maintaining their own distinct web presence which draws content from SAS-Space as it needs it. The collection of interviews and digitised samples of schoolwork can be accessed in two ways. Users of the project site can access the data using a browse interface tailored to the project. Users of SAS-Space can access the whole collection directly, and may also stumble upon data from the project whilst searching SAS-Space for something else.
Another example of this dispersed model is the Francophone Music Criticism project, whose data is similarly held in SAS-Space, but also accessed from the project's own search engine.
Friday, 9 September 2011
Workshop event: Open Access journal publishing, Oct 20th
We've now finalised the programme for this afternoon workshop at Senate House; see the programme and further details.
The event is aimed at editors of existing printed journals who are contemplating a move towards online publication, and also at those planning to start a new journal title. There will be presentations from both a prospective new journal, and from the staff of Amicus Curiae, currently making the transition from print alone to a print-and-web solution.
There will also be an opportunity for delegates to discuss issues of common concern, including business models, marketing and staffing.
The event will also see the launch of our new SAS Open Journals system, in which Amicus Curiae will be the first journal.
To book a place, contact Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk
The event is aimed at editors of existing printed journals who are contemplating a move towards online publication, and also at those planning to start a new journal title. There will be presentations from both a prospective new journal, and from the staff of Amicus Curiae, currently making the transition from print alone to a print-and-web solution.
There will also be an opportunity for delegates to discuss issues of common concern, including business models, marketing and staffing.
The event will also see the launch of our new SAS Open Journals system, in which Amicus Curiae will be the first journal.
To book a place, contact Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
How well used is SAS-Space ?
One of the recent new features of SAS-Space is the provision of download statistics for the materials that it holds, as PDF or in other formats. These are now shown at the foot of each item's page, under the Statistics tab. There is also a digest for the whole site.
Champion resource remains the Register of Research in Commonwealth Countries, from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the various files for which were downloaded 2371 times since October 2010.
The most read paper was The Limits of Self-awareness by Michael Martin, originally published in Philosophical Studies in 2004, with 359 downloads. (See the graph below)
The top dissertation was from the Institute for the Study of the Americas: Mulherres do morro: the representation of women in Brazilian funk (2009), with 343 downloads.
The installation of the IRStats software add-on for Eprints that makes this possible was generously funded by the Dean's Development Fund of the School. It was installed for us by Richard and Rory from ULCC's Digital Archives team.
Champion resource remains the Register of Research in Commonwealth Countries, from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the various files for which were downloaded 2371 times since October 2010.
The most read paper was The Limits of Self-awareness by Michael Martin, originally published in Philosophical Studies in 2004, with 359 downloads. (See the graph below)
The top dissertation was from the Institute for the Study of the Americas: Mulherres do morro: the representation of women in Brazilian funk (2009), with 343 downloads.
The installation of the IRStats software add-on for Eprints that makes this possible was generously funded by the Dean's Development Fund of the School. It was installed for us by Richard and Rory from ULCC's Digital Archives team.
Friday, 29 July 2011
Creating unique collections: Caribbean history and culture
Part of the remit of the School is to provide services that would not be replicated elsewhere in the UK university sector. One example of how SAS-Space can help is the growing collection of scholarly resources for the history and culture of the Caribbean. There are two standard reference works for Commonwealth research from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies: Theses in Progress and the Register of Commonwealth Research.
However, these are complemented by other resources: a collection of articles on West Indian music in the Caribbean and England from an Associate Fellow of the ICwS; and articles on nineteenth and twentieth century history of Cuba from an Associate Fellow and a graduate student of the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
However, these are complemented by other resources: a collection of articles on West Indian music in the Caribbean and England from an Associate Fellow of the ICwS; and articles on nineteenth and twentieth century history of Cuba from an Associate Fellow and a graduate student of the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
New articles from Amicus Curiae
Six articles from issue 84 of Amicus Curiae, the journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies / Society for Advanced Legal Studies are now available. This is in preparation for the journal's transition to the JISC-funded SAS Open Journals system.
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Berlioz's 'Benvenuto Cellini'
A new collection of newspaper articles relating to the controversial Paris premiere of Berlioz's opera are now live.
Monday, 16 May 2011
Conference: Open access publishing in the arts and humanities
A symposium at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in association with SAS-Space
Friday, July 15th 2011
10am-4.10pm
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR
This symposium brings together academics, journal editors, publishers, librarians, funding bodies and repository practitioners to consider issues of particular concern in the arts and humanities. It will examine the economic and public policy aspects of humanities OA, as well as the different modes in which OA is currently delivered for scholars in the humanities.
Bookings for this conference are now closed. To be placed on a reserve list, please contact Dr Peter Webster (Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk). Please include details of institution, position, and a full postal address.
Final programme
10.00 Arrivals and coffee
10.30 Welcome
10.40 The state of play: a personal view (Dr Peter Webster, SAS)
11.00 - 13.10 The context
11.00 - 11.20 The university library: Dr Paul Ayris (UCL)
11.20 - 11.40 The publisher's perspective I: Frances Pinter (Bloomsbury Academic)
11.40 - 12.00 The funder’s perspective I: Neil Jacobs (JISC)
12.00 - 12.20 The publisher's perspective II: Tessa Harvey (Wiley-Blackwell)
12.20 - 12.40 The funder’s perspective II: Professor Shearer West (AHRC)
12.40 - 13.10 Discussion
13.10-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Approaches to OA
14.00 - 14.20 The subject-specific IR: UALRO (Stephanie Meece, University of the Arts London)
14.20 - 14.40 A repository for teaching: HumBOX (Kate Borthwick)
14.40 - 15.00 The overlay journal: SAS Open Journals (Dr Peter Webster)
15.00 - 15.20 An OA publisher on campus: Ubiquity Press, UCL (Brian Hole)
15.20 - 16.00 Discussion
16.00 Closing comments
16.10 Departures
Friday, July 15th 2011
10am-4.10pm
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DR
This symposium brings together academics, journal editors, publishers, librarians, funding bodies and repository practitioners to consider issues of particular concern in the arts and humanities. It will examine the economic and public policy aspects of humanities OA, as well as the different modes in which OA is currently delivered for scholars in the humanities.
Bookings for this conference are now closed. To be placed on a reserve list, please contact Dr Peter Webster (Peter.Webster@sas.ac.uk). Please include details of institution, position, and a full postal address.
Final programme
10.00 Arrivals and coffee
10.30 Welcome
10.40 The state of play: a personal view (Dr Peter Webster, SAS)
11.00 - 13.10 The context
11.00 - 11.20 The university library: Dr Paul Ayris (UCL)
11.20 - 11.40 The publisher's perspective I: Frances Pinter (Bloomsbury Academic)
11.40 - 12.00 The funder’s perspective I: Neil Jacobs (JISC)
12.00 - 12.20 The publisher's perspective II: Tessa Harvey (Wiley-Blackwell)
12.20 - 12.40 The funder’s perspective II: Professor Shearer West (AHRC)
12.40 - 13.10 Discussion
13.10-14.00 Lunch
14.00-16.00 Approaches to OA
14.00 - 14.20 The subject-specific IR: UALRO (Stephanie Meece, University of the Arts London)
14.20 - 14.40 A repository for teaching: HumBOX (Kate Borthwick)
14.40 - 15.00 The overlay journal: SAS Open Journals (Dr Peter Webster)
15.00 - 15.20 An OA publisher on campus: Ubiquity Press, UCL (Brian Hole)
15.20 - 16.00 Discussion
16.00 Closing comments
16.10 Departures
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
New JISC open journal project
I'm delighted to be able to announce that the JISC have very generously funded us to create an overlay journal interface for SAS-Space.
We'll be creating an overlay journal system based on SAS-Space, with Amicus Curiae as the initial example, using the open source Open Journal Systems. This system will then be made available, at minimal cost, to both other existing and new journals produced within the School, and to publications by cognate learned societies. Such a system will greatly increase open access publishing capacity in the humanities and social sciences, and further fulfil the School’s remit from HEFCE for research promotion and facilitation.
More details on the project blog.
We'll be creating an overlay journal system based on SAS-Space, with Amicus Curiae as the initial example, using the open source Open Journal Systems. This system will then be made available, at minimal cost, to both other existing and new journals produced within the School, and to publications by cognate learned societies. Such a system will greatly increase open access publishing capacity in the humanities and social sciences, and further fulfil the School’s remit from HEFCE for research promotion and facilitation.
More details on the project blog.
Friday, 15 April 2011
Carmen in Paris
SAS-Space now holds a collection of reviews from the opening nights of Bizet's Carmen at the Paris Opéra Comique, part of the Francophone Music Criticism project, hosted by the Institute of Musical Research.
The collection is based on Lesley Wright's’s Georges Bizet, 'Carmen' - dossier de presse parisienne (1875), 'Critiques de l’Opéra français du XIXe siècle’ 13 (Weinsberg: Lucie Galland, 2001). It was prepared by Isabella Yeager (Smith College) under the direction of Mark Everist (University of Southampton) and was supported by a SAS Dean's Development Fund award. The directors of the network are grateful to Lesley Wright and Karl Leich-Galland for agreement to reproduce parts of this publication.
The collection is based on Lesley Wright's’s Georges Bizet, 'Carmen' - dossier de presse parisienne (1875), 'Critiques de l’Opéra français du XIXe siècle’ 13 (Weinsberg: Lucie Galland, 2001). It was prepared by Isabella Yeager (Smith College) under the direction of Mark Everist (University of Southampton) and was supported by a SAS Dean's Development Fund award. The directors of the network are grateful to Lesley Wright and Karl Leich-Galland for agreement to reproduce parts of this publication.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Reflecting on digital projects at SAS
SAS-Space hosts a growing collection of materials reflecting on digital projects around the School. They touch on issues such as peer review for digital resources, collaborative editing, sustainability, impact and the experience of creating online resources. See them all here
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
New legal scholarship from Amicus Curiae
Several items from the summer 2010 issue of Amicus Curiae, the journal of Institute of Advanced Legal Studies / Society for Advanced Legal Studies, are now live. They cover topics as diverse as war crimes trials, insurance law and the place of religious 'irrationality' in relation to the law. View the whole collection here.
Monday, 24 January 2011
The music criticism of Joseph d'Ortigue
Editions of a further 100 articles have been added to this collection, bringing the total to over 300 (around half the intended number). Joseph d'Ortigue was one of the most prolific and wide-ranging music critics in Paris during the mid-nineteenth century. He had strong views on opera, was closely involved in debates about Catholic church music, and had a keen interest in the music of the past. All these concerns come through in the latest batch of files, written for a weekly music periodical, Le ménestrel [The Minstrel] run by the Paris publishing house Heugel. View the collection in SAS-Space.
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