by Reed Williams | Jun 23, 2019 | Reed Williams, Uncategorized
This week, Thea and I were able to reorganize our “Where Burleigh’s Music was Performed” data into spreadsheets that categorized the performers by race. The most difficult thing about this process was accurately determining (or sometimes guessing)...
by Reed Williams | Jun 19, 2019 | Reed Williams
After a week of struggling to find geographic breakdowns of census records for the early 1900s, we did it! Actually Ann Schaenzer did it. Thea and I went to her today to ask if she knew of any good resources, and she pointed us to Social Explorer. Not only does this...
by Reed Williams | Jun 3, 2019 | Reed Williams
CURI 2019 is here! The sun is out and the Musical Geography website is open on my computer. Especially after reading through the interim team’s final blog posts, it is clear that we accomplished so much more than we thought we would. For one, all of our maps are in...
by Reed Williams | Jan 30, 2019 | Reed Williams
For my last blog post as apart of the Winter 2019 team, I would like to offer my reflection in the form of a list containing my biggest takeaways from this experience. If this was a CD, it would be a compilation album of all jams. Time is Money… But So Are Breaks:...
by Reed Williams | Jan 23, 2019 | Reed Williams
While this phrase is the title to a classic Boyz II Men song, it doubles for my feelings on the phase of research I just finished ⎯ looking at the racial makeup of various places Burleigh performed or spoke at. At first, I was excited to add this element to our data...
by Reed Williams | Jan 16, 2019 | Reed Williams
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...
