by Thea Brenner | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
As a class we’ve now spent a week reading about and researching Harry T. Burleigh. After a meeting where we chose the kind of maps we want to eventually make, everyone got to work on their projects. I am focusing on a map of Burleigh’s performances in New...
by William Beimers | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
It has been about a week since we started looking at the life of Harry Burleigh, and I have learned much more than I expected over this short time. I was initially tasked with mapping Burleigh’s relationships in the context of the Harlem Renaissance, which is a...
by overdahl | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
When I selected Claire Croiza (1882 – 1946) as my research figure, I knew nothing about her. She was the last figure on the list of candidate topics, with the word (singer) in parentheses after her name. A ten-second Google search and Wikipedia check-in informed me...