This week there were no readings so I was not sure what to expect coming into class because all I knew was that we were going to be introduced to american music which I was not sure what that was going to entail and boy did I get an interesting surprise haha.

This week we talked about the minstrel show, and wow did this class make me very uncomfortable not because of what we learned about necessarily but the reactions of some of the students in the class. Of course sometimes in the class the way the professor talks makes me uncomfortable but I think honestly thats the point of this class. I mean the professor said in the beginning of the class – most of the time he would always play the devils advocate, which is what makes the class interesting because if everyone just agreed with everything being said then whats the point? you’re not going to learn anything. So despite this topic or this class making me uncomfortable sometimes I feel like its good, it pushes you past your comfort zone or pushes you out of your own head. I appreciate the moderate discomfort from this professor.

On Wednesday we kind of went further into this topic, we talked about minstrel shows once again but then we also discussed the steel guitar craze that involved the hawaiians. I really enjoyed listening to that specific music in class today it was super cool and really different I ended up showing my roommates when I got home.