Reflection - House of blues

    Mar/28/11, my class mates, teacher and I went to House of blues to learn about blues. I have never been there before now. I just heard that my friend told me that House of blues is one of the most popular places in Chicago. I wanted to go there. However, I did not have an opportunity. It made my heart flutter when teacher said to go House of blues. House of blues was Pop-culture. I could learn about generation of blues to MC. Blues influenced and developed to new genre. I could hear a lot of genre of blues which was South blues; pop classic blues, electronic blues, free style blues, R&B and so on. One of them should find form of music like A A A B form. I thought Blues could be thought classic, smooth, relax and peaceful. However, Blues had a lot of genre than I thought. Not only Blues has simple music, but also it mixed as variety instrument such as electronic guitar. Music seems to relate each genre of Music not only single music. And I could hear history of music like mixed music, rock’n’ roll, hip hop and rap. I was a pleasure to hear representative music and music of famous musician of each generation at one place. At that time, not only I could learn about Blues, bout also i could enjoy and fell in Music.

My favorite song

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Beyonce is the singer who sang "Listen"
"Listen" is the main song from the movie "Dream Girls", which is releaed on 2006
 I heard this song from M.NET first and I watched "dream girls" after that.
Personally I like slow tempo songs and also loved Beyonce's way of sing. That is the reason I chose this song.
I alway have this song in my Ipod.

of course there are many Beyonce's hit songs like  "crazy in love"  "baby boy" and more,
but I love this powerful R&B song "Listen" the most.

Alternative rock

Reflection #2

Reflection #2

       We learned a lot about singing, movie actor and so on like justin Bieber. I could think about mass media such as what Pop-culture and media give a positive or negative effect to us. Nowadays, mass media exist all the times, all places. Mass media can be spoken by magazine, newspaper, movie, record, a television and new media. I think that a segment of the biggest influence of mass media is programs of a television. When we saw clothes and shoes of actors or singers, we tended to follow stars’ vogue. Therefore, mass media made us to blind our special personality. But also, it made a symbol of each generation as fad and vogue. I could know which generation had fad through presentation and each fad was not only for America. When America has a something fad, our country also has same fad as same generation or little bit late. I was interesting about what is different between fad and trend. Fad is a fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time. And, trend is the general direction in which something tends to move. I wonder about it which one fad is now and who fad makes. I can think it that all of the things connect with pop-culture and mass media.

Pop star

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the hula hoop! ( 50's fad )

   Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin, founders of the Wham-O Company, are the architects of the biggest fad which is the 'hula hoop' of all time. In 1957, an Australian visiting California told them, quite casually, that in his home country, children twirled bamboo hoops around their waists in gym class. Most of us would have thought, "how nice" but for Knerr and Melin an idea spawned. They understood how popular such an item could be and proceeded to manufacture one made of plastic, Marlex specifically, a lightweight but durable plastic then recently invented by Phillips Petroleum. The name "hula hoop" came from the Hawaiian dance its users seemed to imitate.
   Wham-O sold 25 million hula hoops in two months. Almost 100 million international orders followed. They were manufacturing 20,000 hoops a day at the peak of popularity.
Not all nations thought this was such a spiffy idea. Japan banned the hoops thinking they might promote improprieties.

The fad was short-lived. But our young entrepeneurs were already onto another hot idea they had