by Reed Williams | Jun 3, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
It’s time to get back into the swing of things! This map was a quick build in order to practice embedding audio samples (via Spotify) into ArcGIS. I used data from Dr. Snyder’s Burleigh bible to include 13 known instances of Burleigh performing his own...
by Reed Williams | Jun 3, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
CURI 2019 is here! The sun is out and the Musical Geography website is open on my computer. Especially after reading through the interim team’s final blog posts, it is clear that we accomplished so much more than we thought we would. For one, all of our maps are in...
by Reed Williams | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
For my last blog post as apart of the Winter 2019 team, I would like to offer my reflection in the form of a list containing my biggest takeaways from this experience. If this was a CD, it would be a compilation album of all jams. Time is Money… But So Are Breaks:...
by Reed Williams | Jan 23, 2019 | DUR January 2019
While this phrase is the title to a classic Boyz II Men song, it doubles for my feelings on the phase of research I just finished ⎯ looking at the racial makeup of various places Burleigh performed or spoke at. At first, I was excited to add this element to our data...
by Reed Williams | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
The chances of finding new data is diminishing everyday, but the enjoyable thing about this is that its turned into an ad lib puzzle of sorts. Although it is time consuming, it has been fun to cross reference various sources when you’re trying to find the last bit of...
