by Jessie Camp | Jan 8, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Maps. We look at them all time, nestled between blocks of text in articles and textbooks or on classroom walls, and we never give them a second thought. We accept them as they are—why? Because that’s what’s easy. We assume it shouldn’t be that difficult to...
by Benjamin Van Wienen | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Thus far, my experience making my first map was frustrating primarily because of the research involved. Mapping opera companies of East Asia, much of my work involved reading websites in foreign languages (Chinese, Korean, Japanese), finding mentions of obscure opera...
by Isabel Kramlinger | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
After three days of DUR in the books, I am officially an expert map-maker. Well, I made a map, but it’s a start! While discovering the exciting world of cartography through revising Atlas Historique de la Musique’s map on Mozart’s Travels, I connected with the...
by William Beimers | Jan 7, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Boy it has been a busy few days. When I first started last Thursday I had never heard of GIS, Google MyMaps, critical spatial thinking, the digital/spatial humanities, or data cleaning. Not to mention the various Renaissance composers, works, or cities that have been...
by Carolyn Nuelle | May 20, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
During the past year or two, the various Musical Geographers associated with this project have gone through several ways of organizing our data. Some are clearly more effective than others: the first summer, student researchers began with a easily-editable but...
