by baumga1 | Apr 23, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Throughout the process of digital mapmaking, there are many roadblocks that can simultaneously frustrate and challenge. After having spent hours upon hours of cataloguing the appendix on Programs of Modern-Music Societies in New York from 1920-1931 in Carol...
by baumga1 | Apr 3, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Nothing is ever objective in mapping. Nothing. Thinking about this concept is truly scary. The reality of the matter is, there is no objective reality. This semester, I have grappled with this issue more than I could have ever imagined in the subjective reality that...
by hynes1 | Apr 2, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Thus far, we have read extensively about mapping practices and methodologies, and we have also held several Skype “dates” with prevalent scholars working on digital humanities projects (including Diana Sinton, Kate Elswit, Harmony Bench, and Todd Decker,...
by hynes1 | Mar 9, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Since I have extensive experience with Russian culture and much interest in Soviet culture, I decided to study the composers in the Gulag during Stalin’s era. I quickly realized that the topic was too narrow, and so I broadened it to “Music in the...
by baumga1 | Feb 15, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Over a single week I have dived head first into the world of musical geography, transitioning from a map novice to a map critic to, finally, a map maker. While this was a very quick turnaround given my complete naïveté with maps only two weeks ago, I feel a sense of...
