I just wanted to comment a bit on the “wisdom of academic/historical work linking to youtube”. Actually, the use of embedded video in the paper was kind of a conscious point for us. It’s hard to describe music in words, especially for an audience that you cannot expect to have musical training, and providing audio and video clips was rhetorically useful, helping our audience understand the connections we were making.

But it also provides us with an example of the fair, academic use of video content available online. And I’m sure Kevin and I are both aware of the fragility of those video clips being hosted where they are. In fact, between the time we wrote the paper and the time it went ‘to press’, we had to replace several links.

Knowing that this was a possibility, we made archives of the data we used, just as we might photocopy relevant illustrations or handcopy text that we wanted to quote, and the folks at Journal of Transformative Works were very understanding and cooperative about working with us on keeping the embeds alive. Hopefully, this will allow us to let the work stay intact, although it might eventually turn to no longer using the youtube-hosted videos.