The Medium is the Message

This blog post is for the lecture on December 3rd, 2018. For this lecture we came to class having visualized a few maps that represent which music is consumed where and the evolution of music flow through Art Tatum. The first piece showed the map of America, and as you clicked on the states it […]

This blog post is for the lecture on November 19th, 2018. For this class we had to of come to class having read a few articles on how Pandora ranks its music. As a personal consumer of Pandora Premium, I feel like I have a good standing to argue here. I am personally a huge […]

This blog post is for the lecture on November 14th, 2018. For this lecture we came to class having read Witt “How Music Got Free.” As a whole the book was a lot of legal working between copyright laws between the music industry and the people that wanted to set it free. As a person […]

This blog post is for the lecture on November 12th, 2018. We talked a fair amount about how the Cold War influenced a good deal of how the internet operates now-a-days. This is due to how the internet was so influential during the Cold War as a means to process data as well as share […]

This blog post is for the lecture on November 7th, 2018. For this lecture we came to class having watched the video “The Amen Break.” I must say, the first time hearing the drum beat I IMMEDIATELY linked it to that darn car commercial that they play about that Toyota dealership in Springfield. Then, sure […]