by Katharina Biermann | May 18, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
One of the major challenges of this investigation into the Slave Songs of the United States has been figuring out how to describe this genre of music. What Allen, Ware, and McKim Garrison label as “slave songs” can also be considered under a number of...
by Katharina Biermann | May 17, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Shall we graph? Well, now that I’ve gotten the worst of the puns out of my system, I’ll explain what I mean by the sudden flurry of statistical jargon (not that it was so bad – I wouldn’t spring anything too gnarly at you, dear reader). Over...
by Katharina Biermann | Apr 27, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
I was reorganizing the spreadsheet the other night when I realized that there are far more people involved in even the one source from which I am pulling hard data points (as opposed to auxiliary information) than it seems. The source with which I began this...
