Mapping Music, Mapping Memory: Los Appalachianos Interactive Digital Experience
Mapping Music, Mapping Memory: Los Appalachianos Interactive Digital Experience
Los Appalachianos is a community-engaged digital humanities project that brings together music, place, process, and memory. Created by Lua Project in collaboration with Mariam Ismail, Digital Projects Coordinator at Virginia Tech, the collection of Storymaps trace every song written for the Los Appalachianos music project back to the landscapes, communities, and cultural histories that inspired them.
Through audio, videos, images, and digital storytelling, the map invites listeners to explore how migration shapes musical expression—and how songs, in turn, can carry the stories of Appalachia for those of us who have found a home here, wherever we may be from. This living archive honors cultural roots while opening space for new connections between tradition, belonging, and creative evolution.
If you are an individual with a disability and desire an accommodation, welcome! Please email library-event-accessibility@groups.office365.vt.edu at least 10 days prior to the event.
Related LibGuide: Digital Storytelling with ArcGIS StoryMaps by Mariam Ismail
- Date:
- Thursday, February 12, 2026
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:30pm
- Location:
- The Goodall Room (Newman 101)
- Campus:
- Blacksburg Campus
- Audience:
- Alumni Faculty/Staff Graduate Students Public Researchers Undergraduates