Bio: Lauren Berlin is PhD candidate in musicology whose work explores the intersection of television, broadcasting history, and music. Her digital humanities project challenges the dominance of visual data in historical research by emphasizing the significance of sound and auditory archives, particularly in understanding cultural history. She asks how library catalog entries can express racial tensions at play in musical programming on TV, particularly in the afterlife of minstrelsy out of blackface. Her project leverages the extensive – but unprocessed – J. Fred and Leslie MacDonald Collection at the Library of Congress to develop more robust metadata schemas and tagging conventions to facilitate deeper archival and cultural analysis. Fall 2024 cohort. (lberlin@u.Rochester.edu)