{"id":9501,"date":"2014-12-09T14:08:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T14:45:26","slug":"neh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=9501","title":{"rendered":"Professors receive $80,000 in funding from National Endowment for the Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/MediaandtheMovement.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9517\" src=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/MediaandtheMovement.png\" alt=\"MediaandtheMovement\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded approximately $80,000 to two professors in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Evan Bonds, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, received an NEH fellowship to complete <em>Music as Autobiography<\/em>, a monograph examining the concept of music as a form of self-expression. Seth Kotch, assistant professor of digital humanities in the department of American studies, received an NEH Digital Projects for the Public grant to create an online archive of broadcasts from noncommercial and African American radio stations during the civil rights era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny work of art necessarily bears at least some trace of its creator\u2019s personality,\u201d Bonds wrote in the proposal for his project. \u201cYet not until the 18th century did critics and philosophers begin to wrestle with the question of how a composer\u2019s personal feelings and innermost self might manifest themselves in any given work of music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expects to complete preliminary research for <em>Music as Autobiography<\/em> by next fall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/neh__logo_hor_grayscale_small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9520\" src=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/neh__logo_hor_grayscale_small.jpg\" alt=\"NEH_ logo_HOR_grayscale_small\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" \/><\/a>Kotch is co-director of <a href=\"http:\/\/mediaandthemovement.unc.edu\/\">Media and the Movement: Journalism, Civil Rights and Black Power in the American South<\/a>, an oral history project that UNC\u2019s Southern Oral History Program in the Center for the Study of the American South is conducting in collaboration with Duke University. \u201cAs we interviewed deejays and staffers at major North Carolina activist radio stations [for Media and the Movement] \u2026 we learned of their troves of recordings, stacked in boxes, in attics and basements,\u201d Kotch and co-director Joshua Davis of Duke the two wrote in their grant proposal. \u201cAs we celebrate the civil rights milestones of the 1960s, we grow aware, too, that crucial sound recordings of the movement\u2019s legacies are gravely endangered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, digitizing these fragile reels of tape is easier said than done. The two researchers will work in conjunction with the Digital Innovation Lab to repurpose the audio.<\/p>\n<p>The<em> Making Civil Rights Radio Digital <\/em>project\u00a0is expected to be completed in August 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The NEH <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neh.gov\/news\/press-release\/2014-12-08\">announced its latest round of awards Dec. 8<\/a>. The federal agency provided funding for more than 200 humanities projects across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded approximately $80,000 to two professors in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mark Evan Bonds, Cary C. 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