Music Unit Reflection

Music unit is the most interesting unit I had learned during this semester. I studied various genres of music and their features in the last two weeks. For examples, my genre is the techno, a form of electronic dance music. There are so many different type of genre in music, such as heavy metal, pop, ballad, hip-hop, and soul. By doing this presentation, we had a chance to learn and to listen some of them, and we can find the right music to listen also is really improve the knowledge about music.

I also listened to some songs online by searching the music genres, and had saved some of the good website to listen. We had searched about the TOP 40 chart, and most of the songs it there, I know it all. NPR website is one of the surprises to me, they has so many interesting things on the web and a lot of good music, also wonderful stories. For me, the AHA moment is that when I searched about the web, and doing others work with music, I found out that the Africa American really influence music a lot around the world. No matter is rap music or hip-hop, they are just everywhere in music! I also learned about the history of MTV, how they started and the different between rap and hip-hop. Another thing I learned is how black was treated before even in the category of music. 

      The part I like the most is the Unit field trip, is definitely worth of the time. We went to the House of Blues for the field trip. This is also my first time of visit this wonderful place. I listen to a lot of songs form the early time though out today, and by the same time, I also learned about the history about how African American first starts making music. I will visit the House of Blues in the near future. In this unit, my bumper sticker is that “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”