Why are we doing this?

  This morning, my research team and I presented our goals for this summer’s iteration of the Musical Geography Project at the CURI Symposium. Now that we’ve had to consolidate our ideas for the project and present them in public, we have a much...

What’s in a map?

In her article “How to Play with Maps,” Bethany Nowviskie writes that “one cannot ‘play with maps’ without playing with the truth” (107). We like to think that maps represent an “objective” reality, that “solid,...