Blog Post #7

• Damon Kurkowski says ” the marginal-the rejected-the repressed is whatever the powerful have decided is of no use at the moment.” I think what the author meant by this statement is that the way we listen to music now a days is so advance from the way music was listened to back in the day with CD’s, tapes, A-tracks etc. He also acknowledges the fact that we tend to forget the other ways we can interact with music from the old school to the new school way.
• The difference between the powerful and the marginalized in music is when practically everyone knowing a specific song,artist,band etc, that can be identified as powerful, as to being marginalized, where its less popular and not many people know a specific artist,song,brand etc.
• According to Krukowski, the dfference between being surprised by music is like skipping a certain song in an album that we didn’t bother ourselves to listen too, and finally listening to it and being surprised at the fact that the song was better than expected. where as discovering music we never listened to before, may make us feel certain emotions we may have not felt from other the music we’re used too.
• Forced exposures listening experience differs from Spotify because you get a variety of music to listen to, where Spotify allows you to choose the genre,artist,song etc that you prefer to listen to and gives you recommendations based off of that, instead of keeping an open range of unlimited music.