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One of the major topics discussed today was the idea of de-skilling. When factories used machines to make shoes, the machine de-skilled the shoe maker. De-skilling can be seen in the creation of pop music today. It’s so easy to fix the vocals of singers. As long as a you’re pretty/handsome and the record label […]

Hamilton wanted the US to be a diverse industrial nation. Freedom was realized in prosperity and individual diversity, not in land ownership. Human self is best realized when people compete against themselves to find what they are best at. If everyone is a farmer then nobody is doing their best. Actually because of competition we […]

Crowdsourcing is the idea that you get a better result from a large population than with just two experts. Ideas are improved and are better when ideas are freely expressed. I believe that ideas can be greatly improved. However, how can we truly fact check the ideas. Real time editing and contribution of ideas makes […]

How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt is by far my favorite of all the books assigned. I found Glover’s story very interesting. His story was told in an out of chapters, but I kept reading because I wanted to know the end result. It was also interesting to read about the Fraunhofer team’s struggle […]

Today we discussed how museum gives the message that history must preserved from my contaminating touch. You posed the question of  which Wright brothers’ airplane should be preserved. I would hope that history would preserve both. To make an assumption that the human mind cannot discern what history is or isn’t is presumptuous. I think […]

We started off the class jamming. I really loved the music you played by James Brown. However, there is no reason for Make it Funky to be 12 minutes long since he was not doing a lot of melodic singing. Brown isn’t saying anything of substance. Brown’s music is filled with strong rhythmic beats. The […]

This lecture was on the history of sampling. Music is less original than we think. There are two kinds of compression. Data compression is making a file smaller. Dynamic range compression is making it louder overall with less variation between the loud and quiet parts. Sampling means grabbing small piece of audio and replaying it […]

1985 -Nelson George wrote a book Fresh Hip Hop don’t stop. Quotes: “Hip hop-a rhythmic term that echoes the rebellious post World War II jazz form bebop, has become the catchall description of this culture that has ripened outside the proscribed perimeters of mass media, and grown wild in Harlem and the South Bronx.” “A […]

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 […]

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