{"id":107,"date":"2017-09-12T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T22:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dh.maddiecalder.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-09-14T13:53:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T19:53:29","slug":"building-a-new-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briancroxall.net\/f17dh\/student-posts\/building-a-new-humanities\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a New Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"When I express my love for jazz music and my desire to spend all my time in a jazz club to others, few understand why. To most, jazz is just another musical genre, and not one that is very popular these days. For me, it is much more than choosing music that is aesthetically appealing. The existence of jazz and it\u2019s evolution over the last century symbolizes for me the layered traditions and cultures that have come about as cultures and lifestyles have collided.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWhile many know at least some of the music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, or Count Basie, they have done little more than listen to it. Few care enough about the process that resulted in the birth and popularization of jazz to do more than listen. \u00a0However, this search for meaning in the musical cultures and traditions of the United States is the very quest of the humanities. While it is possible for anyone to gain some appreciation for the genre, it is the act of extracting meaning from layers of history, ethnicity, social interactions, literature, music, and art, that characterizes the humanities. A causal listening to jazz without the desire to extract meaning and build upon it understanding, cannot be called humanities.\r\n\r\nThis same idea is expressed by Stephen Ramsay. \u201cDigital Humanities is about building things\u2026\u201d he says, \u201c\u2026if you are not making anything\u2026you are not a digital humanist.\u201d It is this line of \u201cbuilding\u201d that few ever cross. \u00a0It is crossed when consumption of culture gives way to the search for meaning. While the look and feel of digital humanities differs from that of traditional humanities, it\u2019s end goal is the same. While traditional humanities examines art, literature, architecture, and music through personal study and experience with artifacts, digital humanities is capable of searching for this meaning on a larger scale, one which allows us to understand our personal experiences with cultural artifacts in the greater cultural landscape.\r\n\r\nWhile it is important for students of the humanities to find meaning through personal experience, at the heart of the discipline is the need to build upon what has been said and done. Communicating meaning about culture does not end with the knowledge found in books. This meaning is continually built up as new technologies open doors to understanding about culture that were closed before. Jazz music is the product of many peoples\u2019 experiences that developed into a democratic and improvisational outlet for oppressed peoples. It is the composite of many people\u2019s experiences. Humanities in it\u2019s broader sense is the same. Whether traditional or digital, the humanities is the process of building culture upon what has already been experienced.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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