Professor O’Malley talked about radio broadcast being scarce and how TV followed a similar pattern to the radio. Television began to appear in homes in the late 40s and in most cities, there were probably only 6-10 TV channels available. TV was scarce in the sense that there were only four national stations: ABC, MBC, […]
Latin music is a huge influence on North American music Cuban and Puerto Rico migrants come to New York with a distinctive style. We listened to music influenced by Cuban style like “Oye Como Va” by Carlos Santana, who is a Mexican American artist. The music that was created in New York moved by the […]
Copyright How do you acquire property without taking it by force? One example from class was that you could trade for it. You acquired property by mixing labor with earth- classic answer comes from John Locke, in the treatise on government. What about ideas? Are they an example of mixing one’s labor with the earth? […]
Digital Scavenger Hunt I chose to do research on boogaloo because I had never heard of this genre before. Once I listened to it reminded me of salsa; they sound familiar, but boogaloo sounds jumpier. Boogaloo is a genre of Latin music and dance which was popular in the United States in the 1960s. It […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Week 4 included a lot of war history and how this introduced todays new technology. I learned about Montgomery Meigs who introduced the rationalization of life, Max Weber a German sociologist, and Vannevar Bush’s famous letter. Bush’s letter in other words said we publish too much information and are not making use of it. I […]