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  1. Aug 2021
  2. lib200su2021.commons.gc.cuny.edu lib200su2021.commons.gc.cuny.edu
    1. Jazz, rock 'n' roll, reggae and now rap all have not only devoted listeners but intellectual defenders; conspicuously missing from this canon, however, is disco.

      This is true in my opinion, I feel like a lot of people if not all people at least listen to jazz, rock, reggae, and rap on a daily basis and defend them when someone says something negative about it but disco is never listened to or talked about, unless people are talking about the "old" days. I agree very much with this statement. I feel like disco should be talked about because it is a part of music history.

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    1. Reggaeton is a predominantly Spanish-language musicgenre closely associated with Puerto Rico. It is popularthroughout Latin America and the United States. Withformal musical roots in Panama, Jamaica, and New YorkCity, it can also be described as having multiple origins

      I did not know that Reggaeton had formal musical roots in Panama and Jamaica. It's interesting to learn this. Even though it is a predominantly Spanish-language music genre, I feel like even just like it because of the beats, the movements, the vibe of it as a whole. It was and still is very popular here in New York City. I loved it when I was young and I still love it, who doesn't.

    1. The word “hip-hop” has various uses and overlapping meanings. People who most identify with hip-hop recognize it as a culture, and this meaning was developed and is advocated in explicit contrast with the more mainstream understanding of the term as a musical genre. When understood as a genre, it is most often thought to be synonymous with “rap music.” The term is also used to reference a dance style, and—in my experience—this is the word's primary association for those who are least familiar with it. Related to its historical association with Blackness and social critique, hip-hop is also sometimes characterized as a cultural or social movement. As KRS-ONE rhymes, hip-hop is “more than music, hip is the knowledge, hop is the movement” (2007).

      Hip-hop is seen as something different to everyone. Hip-hop has inspired people's everyday lives, it has also become it's own cuture in some way. Some people just see as a musical genre and some people see it as the best musical genre. I agree with what KRS-ONE said, hip-hop is more than music.

    1. Historically, we know many of these points to be true inasmuch as the story of rock and roll's African American legendary pioneers—Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ruth Brown, Etta James, and others—is a fraught one in which 1950s and early ’60s young black entertainers took big, nothing-to-lose risks on stage each night. They forged boisterous sounds and moves that evoked the volatility and possibilities of Great Migration life and culture but watched as their music circulated to wider audiences back and forthacross the Atlantic world and into the hands of mid-’60s “British Invasion” bands.

      I didn't know and I'm pretty sure many people didn't know that African Americans are some of the first people to make and play rock. I also didn't know that rock was started in the 50's and became so popular in the 60's that even the British were starting to write and play it.

    1. This music was hybrid, incorporating elements of African American blues and religious song, Caribbean dance genres, U.S. popular dance and folk music, marching band music, European classical music, ragtime piano, and the transplanted, modified West African rhythms that shaped some of these and other constituent forms.

      I'm surprised to learn and I'm sure a lot of people don't know that Jazz is a hybrid of all of these different elements, blues, different songs, different genres, different music. It's interesting to know.

    1. Jobs would get his wish with the début of the iPod, in 2001.

      To think, that the Walkman was the inpiration of the iPod, the first popular and world recognized digital music player. If it wasn't for the Walkman, we would most likely never have the iPod, which would be a drastic change in the technology and music world in general.

    1. She took her headphones off and said, "I was totally self-absorbed. Suddenly I realized there was a car in the road. I braked and fell."

      Honestly, a lot of people are self absorbed when they have their headphones, earbuds, or AirPods on. They get sucked into their own little world in their own heads and don't realize what's going on around them, hence, the lady falling off her bike because of being self absorbed due to her headphones.

  4. Jul 2021
    1. This week marks the 100th anniversary of Mamie Smith recording “Crazy Blues,”

      It been a hundred years since Mamie Smith's "Crazy Blues" has changed the music industry and record industry and the outlook of black artists, female artists, and black audiences for the better. The impact that is still going on to this day started with the release of this song. All for the better of the people and the business.

    1. The artist will be rigorously examined, mistakes will b il 1. , " . e mere ess y empha-sized

      With good, also comes the bad. Artists who have worked on their music and have made something they love, talked about something that means something to them and stands for something to them are sometimes, if not often, criticized and are told what is wrong with their music and product. People who do this don't know what the artist is going through or why they wrote or sang what they did or how they did it.

    2. It is necessary for each of us working artists of long . . practice to collect those e_x'1"leriences, for which work before the recording micr h . . ·r· . . . . op one 1s a vital neces-sitv

      For artists who record music, it is important to practice their craft for a very long time and go through experiences in order to perfect their craft and have something to write and talk about.

    1. Next thing I remember, I was flying back-wards." Th . h' -"I was en-he seemed to hesitate before telling met 18 fl · body

      First, he fell back because of the impact. then he wanted to say something else. At first he wasn't sure whether to say it or not, maybe it was going to sound silly to say but he said it anyway. He then glew fowards, looked around and saw his own body on the ground. It was a near death experience, out of body experience and maybe, or most likely, he was dead for a couple of minutes and saw himself dead. This is amazing to hear and amazing to know that he remebers this.

    1. Their driving motivation was neither money nor fame, _but the ,vill to achieve the most eloquent expres-sion of idea-emonons through the technical mastery of their instru-ments

      Some people didn't want to make music or have anything to do with music just becase of th money or fame that may come with it. Some wanted to just express their ideas and emotions thtough music, instead of just with words, they had another way and better way to express themselves, their feelings and their ideas.