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Week 9

Filed under: Uncategorized — mromano6 at 6:18 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2018

The Novice in archives/Internet history The result has been a revolution in control over information, and in the ways, we understand authority. We talked about credentials. Back in the day only people with authority could get access to history information, but that has changed. We have easy access to documents that used to require credentials. […]

Week 8

Filed under: Uncategorized — mromano6 at 6:31 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2018

History of Distribution Origin of Genre – Migrations. Movement of black and white rural people to cities We started off by watching videos of different music (pushy rhythms). African American music was more pushy and loud, once again race influenced.  Washington DC has a lot of white country folks. There are different guitar styles. White […]

Week 7

Filed under: Uncategorized — mromano6 at 7:36 pm on Monday, October 29, 2018

New World Beats This context was about clapping during the beats. There is also clapping on the wrong beat and genres having their own clapping beat. We learned about The Great Migration- African American leaving the rural south. During this time, 1920s race records began to appear which means only black American artist. African Americans […]

Week 6

Filed under: Uncategorized — mromano6 at 7:35 pm on Monday, October 29, 2018

Let’s start by saying that this week’s context was very controversial! American Popular Music: An Introduction The Mistral Show-  US form of entertainment developed in the 19th century of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or, especially after the U.S. Civil War, by black people. I personally believe […]

Week 5

Filed under: Uncategorized — mromano6 at 7:35 pm on Monday, October 29, 2018

This week we watched 3 YouTube videos prior to class. Video of The Past which was about the information age. This video explained how people used to communicate through signals. There was always problem every time information was sent to one place to another. There was always noise between signals and everything time the signal was […]