Unit Reflection#4

Unit Reflection #4

This unit was about music, where we learned more about the 40-top music around the world such as Someone You Loved from Lewis Capaldi and Truth Hurts from Lizzo. We did genre presentations, where I explained a genre called 60s British Invasion and I learned other new genres such as 60s Urban folk and Glam Rock. The professor gave us four texts the first one is called same old song, where I learned how the music is changing with the generation and that the new music is designed to bother older people. The second text is called Pop music the same, where I learned that people who listen to Pop radio know that the sound is really similar, they found that music is really popular and universal around the world and I also learned that music sells more when people feel identified with it. The third one is called IHOB: blues text, where I learned about a cruel journey (1500-1800) ,slavery in America (1600s-1865),freedom and the Post-Civil war period(1865-1900), the blues take form country blues+classic blues (1900-1930), the great migration (1910-1960), urban Blues and Rhythm and Blues (1940s-1960), soul, funk and rap (1960s-1970) and continuing the Blues Journey. The last one is called History of Rap, where I learned that rap’s a delivery style that have rhyme, rhythm and spoken language and Rap consists of content, flow and delivery. During this unit we also did a pinboard, which was really interesting because I learned new genres from different cultures. The professor also gave us a list of terms music, where I did my own terms and it was really good because I fell as if I learned more by doing my own list.

My Aha moment was when the Professor gave us the pinboard and she said “we needed to add some songs related to the questions” it was really fun because I had used Pinterest before and when she said that, I was really happy. It was an interesting activity.

I did not know that all pop music sounds exactly the same, and I listened some pop songs, and it is totally true. Moreover, it was really interesting to learn that pop music has a lot of money earning across all music genres because I did not know that pop music was that much important around the world.