I’m not going to lie, I spent most of class on the claritas site. IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING IT’S NOT MY FAULT! You know the saying “Birds of a feather, flock together” that’s what the claritas site was like. I do think it’s fascinating how you can see which zip codes across the country are […]

I believe digital music changed the way we obtain any information. How Music Got Free helped me realize that the compression we’ve talked about is due to digital music and the way we obtain and listen to it. “Most listeners didn’t care about quality, and the obsession with perfect sound forever was an early indicator that […]

Sampling is the basis of hip hop, and after learning about boundary transgression, it makes sense as to why at first certain people were against it. The sampling brings genres together and I believe that the ways in which people sample music helps keep us remember the past and our culture.

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]