by Maeve Nagel-Frazel | Jun 17, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022
I am wrapping up my first week on campus after spending last week at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. We had a busy week talking with scholars, reading secondary scholarship, and (finally!) having our whole team together in-person. Last...
by Davis Moore | Jun 13, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Davis Moore
Week 3 already! Now that our whole crew is on set (campus), the wheels of our operation are turning as rapidly as ever; so, a summary of our work suffices. This summer, we’re attempting to tell stories of the lives of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century black...
by Jack Slavik | Jun 13, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Jack Slavik
It’s already mid-June! Aghhh! Having lost all sense of time after nearly two weeks(?) of touring with the St. Olaf Choir, I am at long last joining my peers on the Musical Geography Project. I am still settling in my new townhouse and adjusting to the departure of...
by Lizzie Gray | Jun 7, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Lizzie Gray
In the famous words of Lemon Demon’s Redesign Your Logo, everything’s connected. Such is the truth for the reading I’ve been doing in my first week on the Summer ‘22 Musical Geography Project, drawing from books, a doctoral thesis, and articles. In this post, I’ll be...
by Davis Moore | Jun 6, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Davis Moore
Hitting the ground running two weeks after finals and holding fresh excitement from last week’s St. Olaf Orchestra tour, I eagerly enter into the space of the Musical Geography Project’s own “tour” of sorts, albeit one of African American musical history....
by Ariana Raduege | Jun 6, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022
Orchestra tour took up the first week of CURI, so I am jumping straight into the Musical Geography Project straight after a week of wonderful music. Lizzie and Louis started already and will help myself and my fellow touring researchers get into the swing of things...
