{"id":1366,"date":"2019-11-08T02:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T02:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2019-11-14T19:25:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:25:56","slug":"musicians-homes-in-the-1930s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/text\/musicians-homes-in-the-1930s\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicians’ Homes in the 1930s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My historical question was: How were the lives of musicians in the 1930s, primarily minorities, impacted by the time period\/events? After reading through many interviews that seemed like a great question to answer, however, after using the voyant tool and looking at these interviews through a distant reading scale, I was able to notice things I didn\u2019t before. I was initially able to see what words were most commonly used through the use of the \u201cword cloud, with more frequently occurring words shown in a larger size.\u201d<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> The first word that stuck out to me was \u201chome.\u201d It\u2019s a simple word that holds variable meanings depending on who\u2019s using it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My question shifted from how musicians\u2019\nlives were impacted, to what did these musicians consider to be their home? To\nstay on the theme of musicians I was limited to using only my documents, as the\nothers did not quite apply. This proved to work out better anyways as it\nallowed me to better compare how words were used in fewer documents. One of the\nfeatures I relied on was term searching and plotting them on the trend graph. My initial goal was to search\nbetween terms I thought would relate to \u201chome\u201d and see if the trends aligned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While the meaning of \u201chome\u201d clearly means different things to the different people in each interview, there are still some similarities. The greatest similarity between all individuals that were interviewed, is that they used the words \u201chome\u201d or \u201chouse\u201d to a similar frequency they did as words used to describe family members. With a few exceptions, physical places weren\u2019t commonly used, so it can be assumed, many of them didn\u2019t associate home with a physical location. This makes sense when considering the migratory nature of the time period, especially with so many musicians being inspired by the events of the dust bowl and great depression.<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Although through distant reading, it can be difficult to tell for certain whether or not this is entirely accurate, it provides a great start to look at these interviews more closely and gain a better understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My historical question was: How were the lives of musicians in the 1930s, primarily minorities, impacted by the time period\/events? After reading through many interviews that seemed like a great question to answer, however, after using the voyant tool and looking at these interviews through a distant reading scale, I was able to notice things … Continue reading “Musicians’ Homes in the 1930s”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}