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For my digital scavenger hunt, I wanted to search more into the terms “white people, black people, country music.” When I used Ngram, country music had no correlation to either white or black people but, when I switched country music to folk music, black people and folk music crossed paths around 1933 and again in […]

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This week we only had one class and were supposed to read Miller’s Segregating Sound. I’m not sure is Professor O’Malley is purposely trying to make me suffer or prove his superiority that he can understand what Miller is talking about but, regardless, the book has been read and my suffering has ended. What I […]

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Before I formally start my witty blog, I took my notes before I got the feedback from Professor O’Malley so, forgive me if I don’t specifically write quotes or the song titles in this week or next week’s blog. I’m trying. I promise. Please don’t take off points! Now that that has been covered…. We […]

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Blackface played an important role in music. How vile and repulsive is that? I knew what Blackface was but, I was not aware of the Minstrel show. The fact that white people changed their appearance to mock black people is so derogatory and disgusting. I feel like white people low key wanted aspects of the […]

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It was really trippy to realize that long ago information was not organized. The idea of people having to make systems to sort documents and to share them is something I take for granted. Meigs system of sharing information through the National Building Museum was really cute yet nifty for his time.   Reading “As […]

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This week left me clueless, which is not necessarily the worst thing. We discussed a good portion of the classes this week about Claude Shannon, a man who apparently is crucially important to this age, yet so unidentifiable to the common man. His work on information being probable is brilliant. I could have never made […]

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