Clyde Davenport

An early website incorporating music and image, about the Kentucky fiddler, Clyde Davenport.

Clyde Davenport is an old-time fiddler and banjo player from south-central Kentucky. In 1990, Brown University ethnomusicologist Jeff Titon recorded music and interviews with Mr. Davenport and his family. He then created a multimedia, hypertextual, Hypercard stack with links to brief essays about Davenport’s music and fellow musicians, photographs, and recordings of several of Davenport’s tunes. As a demonstration of the capabilities of the Web, Geoffrey Bilder converted the Hypercard stack to HTML in 1995, including the sound and image files.

STG still hosts the Clyde Davenport project as a website as an example of a very early web project.

Clyde Davenport is a project of the Music Department.

Contributors to this project include Geoffrey Bilder (STG), Jeff Titon (Faculty lead)