by Katharina Biermann | May 19, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
A plethora of thoughts and emotions overwhelm me as I sit down to compose this final post. Final – not only in the sense of one installment of this project on Musical Geography, but because this will be one of my final assignments as a student of St. Olaf...
by Katharina Biermann | May 18, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
One of the major challenges of this investigation into the Slave Songs of the United States has been figuring out how to describe this genre of music. What Allen, Ware, and McKim Garrison label as “slave songs” can also be considered under a number of...
by Katharina Biermann | May 18, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
When we talk about mapping people, not just places, what else is necessary? Let me step back momentarily to the first instance of my involvement on this project: CURI summer 2015. My particular project on that larger endeavor was the composition of a short,...
by Katharina Biermann | May 17, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Shall we graph? Well, now that I’ve gotten the worst of the puns out of my system, I’ll explain what I mean by the sudden flurry of statistical jargon (not that it was so bad – I wouldn’t spring anything too gnarly at you, dear reader). Over...
by Katharina Biermann | May 16, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
At various points in this course, the question of whether a digital map has to have or make an argument has pushed itself to the forefront of our conversations on the digital humanities. On the one hand, I might argue that, well, of course it does. Not so much because...
