by hynes1 | Mar 9, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Since I have extensive experience with Russian culture and much interest in Soviet culture, I decided to study the composers in the Gulag during Stalin’s era. I quickly realized that the topic was too narrow, and so I broadened it to “Music in the...
by Carolyn Nuelle | Mar 9, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
For my long-term project this semester, I’m revisiting some of the data and source material about jazz and music-hall performances in Paris during the 1920s. At first, I just wanted to tie up lose ends- although I finished a jazz venues map, I still have a lot...
by Stella Li | Mar 9, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Why mapping matters? What makes it different to present a research on a geographical map rather than some other mediums, like prose, tables or diagrams? With an increasing awareness of both the capability and deficiency of mapping, I keep asking myself “why...
by Katharina Biermann | Mar 8, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
I’ve had a particularly interesting experience these last few weeks squaring off against Omeka Neatline as well as beginning to consider some of the limits of not only what digital maps can do, but what they ought to be able to do. It all started, of course,...
by baumga1 | Mar 8, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
As I continue forward on my research in the world of musical geography, I have found many a philosophical and methodological conundrum that I have had to face on nearly a daily basis. Our readings have shaped how I do research and how I make maps and will continue to...
by Carolyn Nuelle | Feb 16, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
In order to create digital maps that are effective in the ways we want them to be, it is first helpful to critique “normal” maps- static, print-based maps- and to analyze how they meet or fail to meet our ideas about what maps should be able to do. The map...
