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  For our other method, we chose to produce a map, locating the birth place and journey of the various musicians in our project.  The significance of GIS technology and mapping in Digital humanities cannot be understated.  GIS or Geographic Information Systems, allows DH researchers to better comprehend, analyze, and visualize data in order to demonstrate relationships and trends in map form. In our project, it allows us to visualize how each musician we learned about traveled across the country to pursue their passion for jazz. There are a variety of mapping tools that are available to those in the digital humanities. They range from easy to use tools like google maps, to more complicated tools like ArcGIS.  Tools like Google maps, allowed us to track artist’s journeys and better visualize the diverse backgrounds of the individuals in our book, which serves to highlight the diversity that exists in Jazz and importantly, in jazz education.  Each person in our book has a different story to tell and a map like this helps one to visualize where each person is coming from in order to more fully understand their upbringing and career path.  During our research, we learned that one’s upbringing is an important part of how one learns to play music, which is why we chose to highlight the birthplace and final destinations of each of our musicians.
  
  As an effort to increase visibility and accessibility, we took to different social media platforms to spread the word about our project. 
  
  
  
  
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  Table of Contents
  1. Evolution of Jazz Mentorship
  2. Introduction
  3. History of Jazz Education and Mentorship
  4. Buster Williams
  5. Germaine Bazzle
  6. Bob Schulz
  7. Allan Vache
  8. Claude Williams
  9. Race in Jazz Education and DH
  10. Modern Mentorship
  11. Our Other DH Method
  12. Conclusion
  13. Additional Works Cited ​
  14. Annotated Bibliography
  15. Process
  16. Rubric