by Lizzie Gray | Aug 3, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Lizzie Gray
If you’ve looked at the maps of the 30 graduates of the Washington Conservatory of Music between 1910 and 1914, you might notice that not all 30 of those alumni are represented. What happened to those graduates? Why aren’t they included? While most alumni of the music...
by Lizzie Gray | Jun 28, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Lizzie Gray
The founder of the Columbus branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians hosted the fourth annual convention of the organization, encouraging the perception that “there are more colored musicians in Columbus than in most cities.”1 In an interview,...
by Lizzie Gray | Jun 18, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Lizzie Gray, Our Process
The Process Yay, archival research! Readings books and getting a feel for context is great, don’t get me wrong, but my favorite part of the project has been exactly what this post will be about: The Archival Research *cue ecstatic music*. I’ve been using databases...
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 Lizzie Gray | May 31, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022, Lizzie Gray
The mosquitoes and stink bugs have not yet breached my dorm room window and for that I am grateful. The 2022 Musical Geography Project begins with me, Lizzie Gray, alone and so lost without my fellow researchers who will save me from the horrors of Dr. Louis Epstein’s...
