by baumga1 | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
After a visit from Dr. Lincoln Mullen of George Mason University, our class came home with a huge takeaway—that static maps matter. But why do they matter? We spent an entire semester discussing the benefits of interactivity, so I found it both confusing and...
by Katharina Biermann | May 19, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
A plethora of thoughts and emotions overwhelm me as I sit down to compose this final post. Final – not only in the sense of one installment of this project on Musical Geography, but because this will be one of my final assignments as a student of St. Olaf...
by Carolyn Nuelle | May 19, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
On May 9, our Directed Undergraduate Research class had the opportunity to workshop our mapping projects with Dr. Lincoln Mullen, a spatial historian and professor at George Mason University. He gave us useful feedback about our individual work, but also helped us...
by Katharina Biermann | May 18, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
One of the major challenges of this investigation into the Slave Songs of the United States has been figuring out how to describe this genre of music. What Allen, Ware, and McKim Garrison label as “slave songs” can also be considered under a number of...
by Katharina Biermann | May 18, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
When we talk about mapping people, not just places, what else is necessary? Let me step back momentarily to the first instance of my involvement on this project: CURI summer 2015. My particular project on that larger endeavor was the composition of a short,...
by Katharina Biermann | May 17, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Shall we graph? Well, now that I’ve gotten the worst of the puns out of my system, I’ll explain what I mean by the sudden flurry of statistical jargon (not that it was so bad – I wouldn’t spring anything too gnarly at you, dear reader). Over...
