New World Music is a hybrid between African and European music, so it’s basically the music I grew up on. I think the best representation of New World Beats is Latin music, because it’s a perfect mixture and most of it contains the misplaced beat that we discussed in class.   Actually, I find that […]

Boundary Transgression honestly sounds like some passive aggressive nonsense to explain racism. Boundary transgression is always either a monstrosity or sacred as we discussed in class. American pop culture is just a mixing of cultures, but there are quite a few times where it is deemed unacceptable. In the 50’s, for a white person to […]

I didn’t think that we would be talking about minstrel shows as American popular music, but since we’re here…WHY NOT! The minstrel show, to me, is one of the darkest points in American pop culture. It seen as almost a national treasure and it’s everywhere… And I mean EVERYWHERE! Even children have seen reminiscence of the […]

  I have no idea what this has to do with anything. I was generally confused for half of class and just wrote a bunch of notes that probably don’t make sense.   Mostly because signal to noise ratio is boring and I’m not sure if we talked about analog computers or not, but it […]

This week in class confused me at first. I wasn’t sure if I was understanding the message. (Get it!) The quote,”A self created in Literacy is a lesser self” is interesting, because the idea that not being able to read makes you smarter because all the knowledge you need to know is memorized. Whereas, literate […]

I believe that the internet is an extremely powerful tool in the modern age. Having the internet available at our fingertips is convenient, but we memorize less. However, it gives us access to more information faster than before. Although, some argue that the internet is making everyone dumber, because we can look things up; we […]