Archive forMarch, 2018

Crowd Sourcing and Wikipedia/Copyright

I don’t think there is anything wrong with crowd sourcing or Wikipedia. I agree with Richard Stallman in which I believe that information is most productive when it is freely shared and circulated. In a capitalist society, I understand why we put restrictions on information, music, etc., (besides copyright and plagiarism) to create competition in […]

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Race Records

Is it weird to say that I love race records? I listen to Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Miles Davis, and many others, but I never thought of their music as “race music” or “race records” until today and I’m black.  I don’t know how I feel about the fact that many record labels, […]

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Country Music

I want to start by saying country music is gross. However, I think it’s interesting that country music was created from the displacement of white people. My granddad listened to a lot of country music or as he calls “Country-Western”, but it was mainly black people who sang the songs. However, as we talked Hank […]

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