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 […]

This blog post is for the lecture on 11/5/18.   I can appreciate Locke’s assertion that ownership of something comes from the mixing of labor. If a person donates their body and time to an object or the betterment of something, then they should in part be rewarded with the benefits from the object. This […]

This blog post is for the lecture on 10/29/18.   I want to start by saying, before I forget, the fact that Stallman’s FOUR freedoms begin with ZERO and therefore ending in THREE. This bugs my OCD to no end, and I just thought I should mention it.   Anyway, I appreciate the point he […]

This blog post is for 10/15/18. Expanding on the change in genre for different audiences, I do think that the changing of genres resulted in the better distribution of music. Back in the days of segregation, a great deal of people would not listen to a song that was created by “a person of color,” […]

This blog post is for 10/10/18.   The idea that the older, like Jimmie Rodgers old, was created to help the new immigrants to cities remanence about the country seems to ring true at least for the most part. When looking at even just the names of Jimmie Rodgers song, they reference Tennessee, Texas, Memphis […]

This blog post is for the lecture on October 1, 2018.   The idea that the Minstrels, where white people would paint themselves black and perform as black people, were a way to widen the gap between the two races holds certain validity. The shows, while being highly insulting, seemed to be a way to […]