Musical Geography

Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Musical Geography uses digital mapping technology to study music and musicians in particular communities of time and space, inviting students to contribute to crowdsourced topics or develop their own research interests. An example of place-based digital pedagogy that fundamentally changes the research process, it also includes reflective practice through student blogs. While musicologists are beginning to “leverage maps as tools for analyzing, organizing, and presenting research,” according to the syllabus, this place-based approach to student learning could be adapted to other humanities or social science fields to help students frame their research and arguments within geographical communities