History 390 blog

Week 13 didn’t really have any new material since we were about to go on break, so we’re gonna talk about the conversation that came from week 14. The conversation was one where though it had elements that I knew about, I was able to learn a good amount about the early stages of regulation […]

I don’t have too much to say this week, but I just want to highlight a particular thing from Stephen Witt’s book How Music Got Free. Of course a big theme of the book was piracy and what I would call the revolution of the MP3. Reason I would call it the revolution is because […]

The main topic for this week was copyrighting, and sampling. The subject matter was interesting because though I did know a decent amount about copyrighting, and sampling from either other classes I’ve been in, or from my knowledge of the music industry, I did learn more in depth information about both that I didn’t know […]

The post this week is about something that we all have used at a point in our lives whether it was to randomly look up a fact, or for research purposes, though if you go back to grade school teachers hated for us to utilize this service. I’m talking about Wikipedia, the encyclopedia of information […]

Class this week was a little different in subject matter, but I understand why it was necessary. It was a interesting subject matter to me at least. The subject matter that was talked about was the Civil War, and within the conversation I was shocked to learn a few things that I wasn’t aware of. […]

Any talk about music this semester peaked my interest. I’m someone who has a big interest in music, and am always interested in learning about the origins of music. We had a lot of discussion about the genres of early America, but the one thing in particular I’m going to talk about is black people, […]