by broske1 | Jan 24, 2019 | Miles Broske
I have had amazing results from online Newspaper collections where data streams into my spreadsheets at over 20 entries per hour. Other sources have not been so fruitful. Textbooks and periodical collections include more steps to transcribe data and are often less...
by William Beimers | Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized, William Beimers
Though the main focus of this month has been on the life and music of Harry T. Burleigh, one of the common ways he is known is as a student of Antonin Dvorak at the National Conservatory of Music in the early 1890s. While studying with Dvorak, Burleigh would sometimes...
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 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 Ian Schipper | Jan 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
As a data scientist (of sorts), I’m feeling quite at home in the layers and layers of spreadsheets that represent all the research we’ve done to date. I’ve learned a few things during my time amongst the data, so I figured I’d share these...
by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 23, 2019 | Uncategorized
At this point in the term, we’ve split the class into small subgroups, but this time, instead of dividing based on research interest, we’ve grouped ourselves based on our “specializations.” To clarify, we’ve decided that at this point,...
by Annika Van Farowe | Jan 23, 2019 | Annika Van Farowe, Uncategorized
When we began this project, one of our first readings was parts of Mark Monmonier’s How to Lie with Maps1. Now that Jacob and I are working on our editing specialization, I’m reminded that his lessons apply to words as well. That might seem like a little bit of a...
by Jessie Camp | Jan 23, 2019 | Jessie Camp, Uncategorized
We’ve now moved into specializations for our Burleigh projects, which means as peers slave over normalizing and checking over data, organize extensive bibliographies, and design maps, I am doing the same thing I have been all month: researching! As a certified...
by Eric Holdhusen | Jan 22, 2019 | Eric Holdhusen, Uncategorized
As our research project on H.T. Burleigh is beginning to come to a close, we’ve been assigned specialization tasks to divvy up the final work that has to be done in order to get the maps finished. Alongside Ian, I’ve been given the role of a data...
by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 22, 2019 | Ben Van Wienen
As we move on to the final stages of our Musical Geographies class, I have assumed the specialist role of “bibliographer.” This means that I survey all of our data entries and compile a comprehensive bibliography of every source we have used in our...
