{"id":421,"date":"2023-02-16T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2023-02-16T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T23:39:02","slug":"drdosido-net-3-0-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drdosido.net\/drdsblog\/2023\/02\/drdosido-net-3-0-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"DrDosido. net 3.0 is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Version 1.0 appeared in 2010 as I marked my 60th birthday by posting fiddle tunes and other traditional folk music I had recorded over the previous 30-plus years. Some weird obsession led novice me to build my own website from scratch. I learned html coding<\/strong> as I went. And it all worked, but with some degree of clunkiness and a considerable measure of over-complication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My coding proficiency improved, and within a year I introduced a revised version that smoothed over a number of rough edges. While the over-complicated details were still fully there, DrDosido.net 2.0<\/a><\/strong> tried to streamline pathways that users could take to get to their desired targets: traditional tunes from the musicians I had recorded “in the field.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I uploaded a lot of material. As designed, my web pages had room for much more. But I never finished it. Real life intruded.<\/strong> The tools I relied on changed. A lot of the recordings I wanted to use were either not yet digitized or were not fully analyzed into usable bits. My attention turned to other matters: family, work, teaching,<\/strong> etc. DrDosido.net went dormant, though a number of folks let me know they still found it useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the time has come to reawaken<\/strong> my snoozing beast. I still have a lot of valuable stuff to share: music, stories, memories. Since I retired from teaching, I have been free to digitize and\/or analyze a host of recordings that have long cluttered my basement office. So I have just now made the first steps to upload DrDosido.net 3.0<\/a><\/strong> as a greatly expanded and hopefully improved online folk music resource<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real work, however, is not the digitizing and coding and uploading, but in organizing<\/strong> the recordings I have made, along with the personal encounters I have experienced, in order to tell a meaningful story about music and musicians in my time and place in the world. I chose not to follow the conventional path of arranging things by tunes, musical genres, or performative provenance, though all these aspects are important considerations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What matters most to me are the musicians I have met and learned from, and the communities and traditions I have connected with through these musicians. Admittedly, I am near the center of nearly all the life episodes to be represented on DrDosido.net. Nevertheless, this is not a narrative of my achievements, but of the relationships<\/strong> that have blessed my life. I count myself extremely fortunate that much of my life’s work, as well as my leisure, has allowed me to be engaged with a rich variety of creative artists, communities, traditions, and histories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the construction of web pages for DrDosido.net 3.0 continues, I promise to post frequent updates with samples of the treasures I have uncovered in the nooks of my basement office. In a few days, I will explain the what and why of two major expansions to my online collections: 1) Old 78s (Compilations) and 2) The Midwest (Published Albums). In the meantime, enjoy this gem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n