by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 17, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In my work on musicological mapping up to this point, I have found that by far my greatest and most important asset has been persistence. At this point in the term, our class has divided mostly into smaller subgroups each tasked with researching and mapping different...
by Eric Holdhusen | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Conducting research on someone from an era as foreign to me as the early 20th century is really a blessing as much as it is a curse. Of course, being almost one and a half centuries younger than H. T. Burleigh has left me with a severe lack of knowledge of his...
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...
by Isabel Kramlinger | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
I cannot believe we have reached the halfway point of our month-long DUR course. There are only two more weeks to gather and finalize data before sending our maps out into the growing world of digital humanities. In order to learn more about the spread of H. T....
by Thea Brenner | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
As a class we’ve now spent a week reading about and researching Harry T. Burleigh. After a meeting where we chose the kind of maps we want to eventually make, everyone got to work on their projects. I am focusing on a map of Burleigh’s performances in New...
by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Now that we have moved onto the Burleigh stage of our research interim, we are getting into the real, fun, and juicy stuff! This is the main project of our course, and I am seriously enjoying it so far. My research process thus far has been looking into historical...
