by Maeve Nagel-Frazel | Jun 17, 2022 | CURI Summer 2022
I am wrapping up my first week on campus after spending last week at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. We had a busy week talking with scholars, reading secondary scholarship, and (finally!) having our whole team together in-person. Last...
by Thea Brenner | Jul 17, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
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 Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 22, 2019 | DUR January 2019
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...
by west3 | Jan 19, 2019 | DUR January 2019
The most recent challenge that has popped up in my Burleigh research is tracking down places where his compositions were performed abroad. Over the past week, I have been focusing on rounding out my Paul Robeson and Roland Hayes research, trying to fill in gaps of...
by Isaiah Pressman | Jan 17, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In my work on musicological mapping up to this point, I have found that by far my greatest and most important asset has been persistence. At this point in the term, our class has divided mostly into smaller subgroups each tasked with researching and mapping different...
