by Thea Brenner | Jun 21, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
After combing through the performances of H.T. Burleigh spreadsheet, we’ve spent the last two days determining the race of our recorded performers, so that we could create two separate map-able layers. Right off the bat, it was clear that black and white...
by Reed Williams | Jun 19, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
After a week of struggling to find geographic breakdowns of census records for the early 1900s, we did it! Actually Ann Schaenzer did it. Thea and I went to her today to ask if she knew of any good resources, and she pointed us to Social Explorer. Not only does this...
by Thea Brenner | Jun 18, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
I’m back at St. Olaf and ready for summer research! After spending a few months away from our H.T. Burleigh maps and progress on the musicalgeography.org website it has been surprisingly comforting to be back at the research routine. I am so impressed by the amount of...
by Reed Williams | Jun 12, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
This week has been full of researching the famous vaudeville/Broadway duo Williams & Walker. Bert Williams and George Walker were extremely successful actors who used vaudeville as a subversive comedy medium. Even though their shows were branded using racist...
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...
