This topic interests me, one because I love geography and the land, and two once I clicked on a link and saw that the Civil War was involved I was hooked. Living in Virginia that was the first state I clicked on when Mapping the songs of America. I don’t know what I was expecting, but that was not it. I was more expecting there to be statistics of how much Justin Bieber was played than the vast amount of polka. However, while look at the Civil War map I was not surprised at all that most of the music appeared to be fight songs to lift the spirits of the troops, or that the music was about certain battles fought throughout the war. I did not fully understand Jonathan Crisman’s maps of rock and roll, I knew that it had something to do with rock and roll and it appeared to have some sort of chronology, but other than that I was very lost in trying to interpret those maps.