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4/25/2025
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Greetings everyone my name is Myrcale Suber and I well be talking about. The Music and Dance of St. Louis. In this project you well learn about different location and areas you may never see be for.
You well be able to see where these locations are and as well as see how many different places you may want to vits just because, you can bring a love one. Or friends who may want to have a good night out.
There is some more location in this travel guide that you may find interning like the café shops or the bars that host live performs as well as serve food. You have a self-date and go enjoy yourself and have a great time doing so.
You well be able to see through my story map of famous places such as Katherine Dunham Museum and Joe’s Café and Art Gallery. Which are well know places in the St. Louis and as well recommended. You can come here during the open hours and have a great time such as great music and colorful art around the room.
Also, if you are an artist or do music this well be a great place to come and show off your talented skills. Even if you wanted to bring your family and friends to come see you show off your voice or see your beautiful art pieces. In this guide you can find a link which it takes to a website so you can find stop that are open to show off your amazing talented.
Do you find this travel guide reliable, if so what do you find the most interesting in this guide? Hopefully this was useful and can help you have great time in St. louis.
In groups of 4-5, take turns sharing about your project. You should provide some background on your project (what drew you to this topic? what do your group members need to know to understand your project?), your driving argument or narrative, the kinds of sources you’re using, your choice of technology, and how that technology fits with the content of your project. These are all works in progress, so you don’t need to have it all done! But you should talk about your progress so far, any challenges you’ve run into, and how you envision the final product.
When you’re not presenting, listen attentively to the presenters and fill out a peer review form for each one. That form will help presenters know how clearly they’re articulating their argument and identify potential challenges and ways to strengthen their project. It also lets them know where they’re doing a good job!d
Problem Statement: The Role of Music Venues and African American Jazz and Rock performers that Shaped St. Louis’s Culture Identity.
Observation, Background, and Context: St. Louis is to be recognized as one of many central points for Music, specifically Jazz, Blues and rock. Some venues like the Pageant, Gaslight Square, and Blueberry Hill have provided performance spaces for iconic musicians while also giving and showcasing local talents. What inspired me to do this topic was I use to be in the band in middle school and played Saxaphone and clarinet. It’s interesting how these venues not only serve as entertainment for these musicians but also cultural spaces, which can mold the city’s identity and give the community a sense as well. As time continues with anything in life, there are economic shifts and gentrification that have affected these historic sites. Some thrive and expand while others have closed or shut down due not to meeting certain expectations. This brings me to the question as the impact of music venues on the city’s culture in the face of economic changes.
Problem at Hand: The challenge in understanding how music venues have impacted St. Louis cultural identity over time. What roles have these venues played in a social life of the city of St. Louis, and how they have molded to changing times? Another question to consider is how the impact of some places does be closed and not closed impact the local community, the musicians and the city’s landscape itself?
Technology to present this work: To do this research effectively, I will use an interactive storytelling map to visualize the changes in St. Louis’s music venues over time. By integrating these digital tools, I seek to get my audience attention and interact with the material while also having these informative resources that showcase the relationship between music, space and cultural identity.
Below are some sources that give a background to St. Louis history of Jazz and RocknRoll music that were used in this project:
The Old Rock House | Gateway Arch Park Foundation
List of Jazz musicians from St. Louis – FamousFix List
Unraveling the Legendary Rock Music Venues of St. Louis
Jimmy Forrest: The Tenor Saxophonist Who Bridged Blues and Jazz – Jazz Daily
Hamiet Bluiett, Giant Of The Baritone Sax, Has Died At 78 : NPR
For my how did I make that project presentation, I picked the “We Are Saint Louis” story. The Community Storytellers Initiative is part of the We Are Saint Louis project, which overall aims to document and share the diverse narratives that shape the city’s identity. The broader project really dives deep and focuses on collecting oral histories, personal experiences and community insights to help bring about a more inclusive and understanding of Saint Louis social and cultural landscape. The idea of place and space are crucial when identifying and tracing history of what happened in the past and why. But also think about the current moment in time and how that could affect the future. I believe this project has a good start, especially with having a story map of where you can see how people. Seeing Saint Louis, how they chose to represent space and place. The We Are Saint Louis is an important initiative that can significantly benefit underrepresented communities and minorities. By really looking into the untold stories and bringing out local voices, it adds representation while preserving cultural stories. This community driven approach ensures that these stories are told with the people. The usability from this website could benefit clear navigation with the contributors and links with contacts for easier community engagement.
My project is intended to map out in chronological order through StoryMap the different libraries that were created in the Metro East region, and a brief history of how each library came to be.
I have plotted a general area for public libraries that I want to include, and through this have decided that width instead of depth will be important for this project, due to the number of libraries I wish to include. As I continue to research them, however, this may have to be further pared down. List of places to include:
- Edwardsville Public Library
- Glen Carbon Centennial Public Library
- Belleville Public Library
- Fairview Heights Library
- Caseyville Public Library
- East Saint Louis Public Library
- Mississippi Valley Library District
- Madison Public Library
- Six Mile Regional Public Library
- Maryville Public Library
I also want to provide background on why so many libraries are considered Carnegie libraries, and so will also include at least one slide on Andrew Carnegie – this I’m not sure how I want to format, but for now is connected to his place of birth in Scotland.
I have a few sources throughout the rough draft, which is admittedly not as thorough as I would like, but does include a lot of information from the history portions of most library’s webpages, as will likely be the case for most of the locations I chose.
- History of Edwardsville Public Library
- A 1936 primary source on the history of Belleville Public Library
- Fantastic resource on the number of public libraries in the U.S. from 2019/2020 fiscal year
- Glen Carbon Centennial Public Library’s history pagehttps://glencarbonlibrary.org/library-history/
- I plan on finding more information about Andrew Carnegie and the libraries he funded, but so far Carnegie’s Wikipedia page, and the Carnegie library page are my starting point.
My project was reviewing “Connecting the Dots: A birds-eye view of St. Louis’s LGBTQ history, 1945 – 1992″ which was a StoryMap. The project was funded by numerous organizations, appearing to have started in 2016 and was published in January of 2021, and is currently being maintained by the Washington University Library. The project focused on finding and compiling resources surrounding the topic of LGBTQ culture and history in the St. Louis and Metro East areas, specifically to explore the ways in which gender, sex, race, class and geography influenced queer culture of the time. The reasons stated by the project for the importance of this work was that LGBTQ culture was inherently secretive, due to the danger that being out could mean for individual safety, which meant that many of the physical locations for the culture were obfuscated. This project specifically aims to make it clear that even if LGBTQ people weren’t publicly advertising their inclusive hangout spots, that they still existed, and were important to many movements of the eras presented. The project used primary source information for places and events that they could confirm had physical addresses, as well as recollections from elders in the queer community who lived in the region.
The project included two separate areas of history, the first leg focusing on general LGBTQ history, and those locations important that community in the St. Louis and Metro East region. The second leg, which was in my opinion much more fleshed out and had a ton of information, was the “The Impact of Segregation: Race in LGBTQ St. Louis, 1945 –1992″ StoryMap that was listed in the “More” section of the first project. This project contained a wealth of information about how the region’s history as a border state for slavery, and as a “gateway to the west” formed its cultures in minority communities, in this case in African American and LGBTQ communities. The project details how white flight from the metropolitan St. Louis area affected city, rural, and suburban life for the LGBTQ communities in every area, and the ways in which racial tensions formed the cultural boundaries of those same communities.
I think that both parts of the project were great, but I definitely gained a lot more from the second project on segregation and will be recommending this to people to read. As a non-local who grew up in a very homogeneous area, I try really hard to learn about this region, so as to better understand its culture. I was more aware of the processes of racial injustice in terms of segregation, redlining, and other predatory practices of the post Jim Crow Midwest before this project, but now I can provide more context around how that informed microcosms of different LGBTQ history.
The English Department of St. Louis University started this project. While they began the project, it is intended to be collaborative with residents of the city and other academics, local and nationwide, welcome to add historical documents or research projects.
The goal of this project is to educate on the topic of St. Louis’s experience with systemic racism from its beginning. It accomplishes this goal three different ways, a research page where projects related to the topic are posted, a page dedicated to highlighting St. Louis artists through time, and a page dedicated to the neighborhoods of St. Louis with historical background. An example of a research project is “Effects of Marijuana legalization on the St. Louis Community”. I was surprised to learn Miles Davis is a St. Louis native as I am a big fan of his music. The neighborhood page covers The Ville and Mill Creek Valley and their respective landmarks.
One of the technologies utilized by this project is a timeline. The website takes all the historical documents posted and formatted in a timeline in ninety-nine-year chunks starting from 1600 spanning to 2023. When a visitor selects a specific decade, the website displays notable individuals born, significant events, and neighborhood histories through that century. For example, if 1900-1999 is selected, visitors will be able to learn The World’s Fair and the Harlem Renaissance as well as eugenics and The East St. Louis Massacre.
In my opinion, this project is very successful in teaching the insidious and unfortunate ways systemic racism has treated the African American community that built the city. It is particularly successful in educating on the small pieces of history that may seem insignificant to foreigners from the city, but especially significant to current residents. The project welcoming residents who remember their history to add makes the project feel all the more personal about one of the most important cities in our country.
Ice cream timeline:
The oldest ice cream parlor in America dates back to the 1860s, small scale of course but with more modern refrigeration came an uptake in popularity, but it was far from being a common product, until the 1904 world’s fair allowed for a culmination of electrical power and sudden demand in a large city like saint louis, the Pevely dairy company (which opened in the 1880s as a butter/ milk route in saint louis) had its first site opened in 1915 which later included an ice cream manufacturer in 1916. The Velvet freeze ice cream company opened in 1934. These are the two oldest ice cream manufacturers in the saint louis region, and what do they have in common? They opened after the worlds fair.
Water filtration timeline:
Until 1831 saint louis relied on springs and cisterns for water, as the population grew the city contracted water supply channels to be built in 1835. The efforts to purify the water ended for the most part in failure. These are accounts of saint louis residents in 1858 describing the water.
“St. Louis is supplied with water from the Mississippi River. A steam engine of considerable power draws it from the river and forces it to the reservoir. The water is taken out in the upper part of the City, above the entrance of any sewers, at a place where the river is deepest and the current is swiftest, and therefore the water taken out is the purest that can be obtained.”
“The appearance of the water when first taken from the river, or when the supply from the reservoir has not had time to settle, is rather muddy and thick, from a great mixture of light sandy particles, and strangers generally dislike it; but it soon settles on becoming stationary, and then is very palatable, and persons soon become fond of it–preferring it to any other water.”
Source: stlwater.com/history2.php
Another scheme at water purification was introduced in 1865, it consisted of a pumping station, settling basins, and filter beds. The filtered water to be conducted by gravity in a conduit to Baden, where a High service station was to pump it to a reservoir.
Bissells point pump station went into effect in 1871, providing marginally cleaner water spearheaded by Robert Kirkwood, a civil engineer that had high praise for his works in new York and on railroads.
Finally, for the worlds fair they hired john Wixford, a chemist, to see if they can make the Quincy process more efficient in order to clear the water for the worlds fair, he found that milk of lime slaked at 190 degrees was efficient and he patented the process in the united states and great Britain. This resulted in a clear cascading waterfall that was central to the fairs layout.
In 1908 a new coagulant house was built to automate and store the discharges of ferrous sulfate and slaked lime.
Edward wall, water commissioner from 1911 to 1925 proposed a secondary coagulation and filtration process as an add on to Wixfords process in 1911
Electricity timeline:
Union Electric Company was founded on May 20, 1902 with only a few employees and 2,000 customers. The World’s Fair in 1904 allowed for the company to expand tremendously and expose millions of people to brilliant lighting display. Many of them had never seen electric lights before.
In 1913 Union Electric began using hydroelectric power, buying power generated by the new Keokuk Dam which allowed UE to expand into rural areas.
The company then built a second hyro-electric dam on the Osage River in Central Missouri. This dam was completed in 1933 and forms the Lake of the Ozarks.
Union Electric and CIPSCO Incorporated, parent of Central Illinois Public Service Company, merged in December 1997, creating Ameren Corporation.
Source: St. Louis Historic Preservation