“The Songs Are Alive”

• Main Authors: Jaakola, Lyz, Powell, Timothy B.
• Other Authors: Gunderson, Frank, Lancefield, Robert C., Woods, Bret
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2018
• Subjects: Fond du Lac; Fond-du-Lac; anishina*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190659806.013.32

“The Songs are Alive” recounts the digital repatriation of Frances Densmore’s audio recordings of Ojibwe/Anishinaabe songs that were originally made on wax cylinders in the first decade of the twentieth century and are held by the Library of Congress. Powell, a digital humanities scholar at the Univ...