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, […]

To start out I would like to say that this week of class was very interesting. What made it so interesting is that not only did I learn a little more about the origins of music, but also how I learned that something that I thought was a joke for the longest was reality, and […]

I can for sure say that this topic that we discussed for this week of class peaked, and kept my interest. It’s a topic that many people still have some hard feelings over including myself. The overarching topic we talked about was the all mighty minstrel show. The shows that depicted my people as slow […]

Remember last week when I said that lesson had it’s dry spells, well this week definitely one upped it. Like the week prior, there is a lot of necessary information to understand for this course that we discussed, but that doesn’t take away the fact that this was a week of class that was tough […]

What can I say about this week of class? Well for starters there was a lot of information that was given that can definitely be considered important in the grand scheme of things when it comes to our knowledge of our technological past, but I’m not going to lie the topic was pretty dry overall. […]