Unit 4 Reflection

Unit 4 Reflection

Unit4 was about music. I learned about the 40-top charts music such as Senorita from Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello. During this chapter I had a presentation about Music Genre, Glam Rock. Through the presentation I got some information about music genre. And I read 4 texts. First text was ‘same old song’. This text was talking about pop music contains violence and sexual content. In addition, pop music is not for adults, that is for children and teenagers. Children need boundary and they have to be protected. Second text was ‘Pop music the same’. This text was talking about all pop music is same. Some scientists had a research of lots of song and they realized pop music has same style so that we can predict what is going to be famous. Third one was ‘IHOB: blues text’. From this text I learned about blues history. The text explained about blues history from 1500 to 1960. There was long history of developing blues genre and how much they changed. In the past, Africans were slaves and they could not express their feeling and they could not talk. Thus, they communicated with song. Last text was history of rap. This presents what is rap genre. Rap is a delivery method and configurations. Through class I learned various kinds of music genre. Therefore, I could understand music genre and I explored new music genre such as Glam Rock, Heavy Metal and so on. Those things are really interesting and I could have various views of different music.

My aha moment is presentation about Glam Rock.  Glam Rock’s style was really new to me. That was so interesting and giving a culture shock. I knew about Rock, but I did not have any idea about different sorts of Rock genre. The music was so amazing. I felt excited when I listened Glam Rock music at first. Most of music is good, interesting and something special. The presentation was so meaningful because I could know many music genres from the presentation.

I did not know about blues history. I did not know the blues history is really long and the music style had changed a lot by the time. I did not even know that blues created by African Americans. They conveyed important information by singing. The blues has many kinds of styles and every blues shows their own feeling. They could not express their emotion easily because they were slaves. Those facts were so interesting and made me to realize the origin purpose of blues songs.