When reviewing “Hearing the Americas” it was able to give me some ideas on how I would want to structure my own project. Their site is very user friendly in that everything is labeled and easy to follow. They have tabs to explore the different artists, styles and they have an in-depth “About” section. When reviewing this site in the eyes of Organization of American Historians guidelines we are able to dissect the site. Content is the first guideline that it meets. This source is very recent in that the work was done up until 2023 and was done by George Mason University. The content is shown as a way for the readers to learn about the history of music in the Americas in the early 1900s. The goal is to find and share music from that time period with the original audio. Next is design. The design of the site is easy to follow with tabs that show you around the site. Each tab has a function that works.The site is also very user friendly because of how basic it is. The tabs explain what they are showing and you can go around each tab and explore the musicians or just the music. The audience of this site would be those interested in early 1900s music. This site helps bring the original sound of the music up to the present day. Next is digital media. What makes this site unique is that it uses original sound from the 1900s records. People are able to go to an artist and listen to their music. A lot of the music is hard to find as this was done before records became popular. Because of this the site is preserving history. The creators of this website is George Mason University with the help of many others.
Karush, Matthew, and Michael O’Malley. “Hearing the Americas.” Hearing the Americas · Welcome · Hearing the Americas, 2023, hearingtheamericas.org/s/the-americas/page/welcome.