Introducing the Database of Recorded Jewish Music: A Demonstration of the Visualization and How To Use Tableau

Session Submission Type: Panel Session

Abstract

The Database of Recorded Jewish Music (DRJM), a project of the UCLA Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience, is a multi-faceted research and discovery tool that provides both scholars and the public unprecedented access to archival collections of recorded Jewish music held in United States institutions. Initiated in 2019, the DRJM is an attempt to create a relational database of recorded Jewish music in the United States to form a comprehensive discography, and has since grown from housing a single archive to aggregating the data from five Judaic music collections.

This presentation will provide an introduction to the project, a demonstration of the interactive database visualization and analytical possibilities. Our aim is to share this work to Jewish Studies scholars. The panel by the research team will address: the goal and contribution of the DRJM; how to use the visualization tool; the pilot project to analyze Jewish and musical indicators; a demonstration on how to build a Tableau visualization.

This roundtable will provide the context of the DRJM and how this tool demonstrates an application of Digital Humanities to explore new areas and to develop new research questions.

Sub Unit

• Digital Humanities (Wildcard Division)

Chair

• Judith Pinnolis, Berklee

Individual Presentations

• Visualizing and Analyzing Recorded Jewish Music: Building a Relational Database for Jewish Music Data and Utilizing Tableau for Analysis - Danielle Stein, UCLA, Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience

• Visualizing the Archive: Pilot Study for the Discography of Recorded Jewish Music - Jeff Janeczko, Milken Archive of Jewish Music

• What are the Implications of the Database of Recorded Jewish Music? - Mark Kligman, University of California, Los Angeles

Zoom Host

• Zoom Host 03