DRJM Conference Presentations and Workshop Materials

Conference Panel 1: New Approaches to Studying Recorded Jewish Music

Papers:

• “Gendered Voices of Home and Hopes for Tomorrow: Examining the Recorded Lullaby in Jewish Émigré Life through the Database of Recorded Jewish Music”
  • Danielle Stein, University of California, Los Angeles, Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience
• “Immigration and the Sound of American Jewry: How the Immigration Act of 1924 Affected the Production of Commercial Jewish Music Recordings”
  • Jeff Janeczko, Milken Archive of Jewish Music 
• “The Frequent Sounds of Sacred Jewish Music”
  • Mark Kligman, University of California, Los Angeles, Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

Presented at the:

• American Musicological Societies National Meeting, Denver, Colorado – November, 2023
• Jewish DH International Conference, University of Potsdam – April, 2024
• The Association of Jewish Libraries National Meeting, San Diego, CA – June, 2024
• Music After 1900 International Conference, Leuven, Belgium – September, 2024
• Society for American Music National Conference, Tacoma, Washington –  March, 2025
• The International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres International Conference, Salzburg, Austria – July, 2025

DRJM Workshop - Building a Database of Recorded Music Data for Analysis, Research, and Access: Developing The Database of Recorded Jewish Music (DRJM)

The UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) Workshop, “Building a Database of Recorded Music Data for Analysis, Research, and Access: Developing The Database of Recorded Jewish Music (DRJM)” engaged a cross-disciplinary panel of UCLA and outside scholars in a comprehensive workshop to consider and determine methodologies and best practices in aggregating large amounts of recorded music data from national archives and institutions for analysis, research, and access. This workshop was held in-person, March, 2024, of the Winter Quarter. Utilizing an extant database of recorded music data (DRJM), the workshop considered the development of music-data centered databases for scholars and the public in fulfilling both research and access needs. The workshop facilitated cross-disciplinary engagement across UCLA departments and American institutions more broadly, as the DRJM project and main investigators worked towards the development of a large-scale Wikibase, linked-open-data portal for all recorded Jewish music and related materials.