by Thea Brenner | Jul 23, 2019 | Thea Brenner
Part of this summer project is looking at our data from the January H.T. Burleigh and figuring out what the next steps are in interpreting this data. For an example of a similar mapping exercise, check out this post about my attempts to understand the race of...
by Thea Brenner | Jul 17, 2019 | Thea Brenner
Greetings from the same laptop, new location! This weekend we are in Washington D.C. at the Library of Congress! Yes you read that correctly! I have been looking forward to this trip for a long time so to finally be here is a somewhat surreal feeling. There are a few...
by Thea Brenner | Jun 21, 2019 | Thea Brenner
After combing through the performances of H.T. Burleigh spreadsheet, we’ve spent the last two days determining the race of our recorded performers, so that we could create two separate map-able layers. Right off the bat, it was clear that black and white...
by Thea Brenner | Jun 18, 2019 | Thea Brenner
I’m back at St. Olaf and ready for summer research! After spending a few months away from our H.T. Burleigh maps and progress on the musicalgeography.org website it has been surprisingly comforting to be back at the research routine. I am so impressed by the amount of...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 23, 2019 | Thea Brenner, Uncategorized
Greetings from the final week of Music Geography 396 here at St. Olaf College! We’ve split into groups depending on our specialties in the spirit of efficient and equal work responsibilities for this project on H.T. Burleigh. I was in two groups at the start of...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 16, 2019 | Thea Brenner
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...