The Digital Past

This week, we talked about music again! Although I will say, sometimes I feel incredibly lost in this class. I do enjoy the class a lot, as it expands the knowledge I have on music, but sometimes it doesn’t really flow. Anyways, we started out talking about beats again, like how rock music often has an ahead of the beat feel, so I was like “yes my kind of music!” Then he switched to bluegrass and country, which again I still like. I never really pay too much attention to the beat pattern, as I just kind of enjoy music and don’t read too much into it. Unless it’s the lyrics, I love reading into those. We listened to the music of Jimmie Rogers, the Benny Goodman band, and Buck Owens to focus on country music, and I honestly enjoyed them. I never thought I would like old country, like I thought Toby Keith was as far as I could go, but it was interesting as we listened and analyzed the music. It was incredibly interesting learning about how different cultures affect the music and genres too, which brings in that American music is shared through forms and songs. At the end we brought in Elvis Presley, who I love, but I will say hearing how segregated it was back then hurts, but I’m sadly not surprised either. So far really enjoying the music!