Project Plan

For this project, I am collaborating with my classmate Arshiya Khattak to investigate the nature of the structure of the Rooftop Rhythms episodes. More specifically, we are interested in the degree of structure that Dorian Rogers, the creator of the show, brings to the free poetic flow of the participants through his moderation of the episodes. Can we see, through the tools of distant reading and text (or speech rather) analysis, any MC attempts to bring in a structured formula to the show?

• FA19 - 20191122

• SP20 2020417

• FA20 20201023

• SP21 20210430

• Rolling Stylometry to identify “Dorian” speech.

• OCR for converting scanned images to text.

• AntConc and Voyant tools for collocations, visualizations, and cross transcription analysis.

• RStudio Notebooks for comparing two texts to a third one.