by Eric Holdhusen | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
If there was only one thing I could take away from this interim, it would be a whole lot of gratitude for being only a first year student. This project on H.T. Burleigh, besides all the valuable information I’ve learned on early American music and composers, besides...
by Reed Williams | Jan 23, 2019 | DUR January 2019
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 Eric Holdhusen | Jan 22, 2019 | DUR January 2019
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 | 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...