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Archive forMarch, 2018

We discussed how the record store was saturated with the politics of race. There was a racial line set up by commerce and enforced by culture. I believe that fundamentally music is still delineated by race and what is appropriate for each race to listen to. With a racially charged culture right now, people are […]

The European tradition tends to emphasize the “1” and the “3” beat whereas the Afro-New world traditions tend to emphasize the “2” and the “4.” Music of the new world is the hybridization of European and African tradition which resulted in the introduction of a displaced beat. The displaced beat has an emphasis on the […]

Boundary transgressing animals allow the sight of intense social interest or fascination. A boundary transgressing animal attracts interest and is considered either a monster or sacred because they don’t fit into a predetermined category. More specifically, this type of animal is mostly considered an monster when they can fit into multiple categories. Society tends to […]

The music of the United States is different from other countries because of African influence. White people tend to notoriously clap on the wrong beat. If you think about the people that settled here, they were looking for religious freedom. Music and beats is not something that they were exposed to. Notoriously clapping on the […]

I never really knew much about the history behind the internet.  A huge part of the Cold war research involved targeting. Computers became central to this research. First, we started with analog computers but then we upgraded to electrical computers. Electronic computers were made up of vacuum tubes. Tubes allowed amplification. ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator […]