Who gets what history?

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...

Coordinating People and Places

When we talk about mapping people, not just places, what else is necessary? Let me step back momentarily to the first instance of my involvement on this project: CURI summer 2015. My particular project on that larger endeavor was the composition of a short,...

A work in progress

The embedded map above shows the current state of this cartographic experiment. A couple of things have changed since I began this project; first, there are now two data sets. I started out with simply the information from William Francis Allen et al.’s Slave...

Maps and Movement

One of the thought-provoking themes of the recent Skype conversations our class has been having with scholars of musicology and the digital humanities is that of map-making and movement. In this case, I refer not only to the maps and research blog(s) of Kate Elswit...