Today we spoke about the history of distribution and the history of genre, there were no readings for this week so it was interesting to come into class and learn about these things directly from our professor, he honestly baffles me with how much he knows about every single topic.

Unfortunately this lecture bored me, starting off the class talking about beats and rhythms of songs and the idea of tempo and what not, was boring to me I felt like I was in my high school composition class all over again. We all had a laugh when the professor told us that all white people suck at clapping and never clap on the correct beat, I mean he’s not wrong. We then transitioned into talking about the different versions of songs and how essentially a song can switch genres when they change the rhythm. For example a song played on the mississippi plantation versus the same song played by a country band, can be changed into a different genre in an instant because of those slight changes made to the dynamic of the song. Then we got into the conversation of Muddy Waters and how when he was living on the Stovall planation he was discovered and recorded singing and how he eventually became one of the leaders in the “chicago blues” area.