{"id":1705,"date":"2019-11-13T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T16:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2019-11-24T20:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T20:21:12","slug":"blog-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/special\/blog-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Archives such as the Special Collections Research Center offer scholars chances to engage with the materials and information that they focus on. It provides a place for those documents and unique pieces of history to be preserved and used for historical pieces later. Preserving these pieces of history and storing them so that they may be called upon again is why archives are extremely important. In an interview, archivist Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez stated that record creation, keeping, obstruction, or misrepresentation are all acts of identity and power. This is why she is proud to do the work of preserving the voices of the people who created those works of art. <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Archivists preserve and record these works of art that often give voices to those who often go unheard. These special collections allow the public to hear from these people in unique and specific ways that most historical information doesn’t allow for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Archivists must decide which materials to be digitized and this decision stems from the condition of the piece of work or art, ability to be scanned and uploaded, space for data to be stored, and importance of the work. After taking all these into consideration, they must decide if it is worth being digitized. Digitizing these works does allow for more accessibility as we are in a world that revolves around technology and being able to access information form anywhere, but there is something about experiencing works in person especially art that viewing on a screen just cant compare to. That digital information however, does allow for the voices of those artists to reach multitudes of people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The Federal Theater Project had a deeper impact on the United States than I had originally thought. We can see from the introduction of Peter Grough’s book on the New Deal and Federal Theater Project that music was often the only thing some of these people knew and fostering that and giving a channel for them to grow that exposed them to new ideals and skill that changed their life. <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> The project gave many people jobs as music teachers as well as giving people music programs to participate in and uplift their lives. Many people cited the music projects in the west as the reasons for pulling themselves out of their slumps and giving them purpose. The true importance of the Federal Music Project was lost on me and these readings help me to realize that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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