Presentation

Tabiha Arambula

Pop Culture

MW 2pm

10/8/14

               

                The first article that I read, was Get Up Stand Up by Angelica Gallardo. In this article she basically wrote about Bob Marley's life and what a great influence he was to people all over the world. He was raised by his mother in poverty. He was a Rastafarian, which were outcasts because of their dreadlocks, marijuana use, and mystic aura that surrounded them. He wrote songs based on his experiences in life in the city, and it was his way of speaking out, singing about the injustices that he experienced. His music was so powerful that at one point government officials thought he was a threat and that the people all over the world would actually stand up for themselves and fight for what they believed was right. Some people tried to kill him, and it resulted in injuries to his wife Rita, his manager and himself, but they didn't die. After that, he still went to a concert to play his music and he showed his wounds. He then went to see the suspects that tried to assassinate him, and it turned out to be a man from the CIA that was given unlimited supplies of weapons and cocaine to eliminate the person who was a threat, meaning Bob Marley. He then was ordered to leave Jamaica and not return at all for his safety, and in 1981 he died in Miami.

 

                The other article was, Charting Race: The Success of Black Performers in the Mainstream Recording Market.  In this article, Dowd and Blyler, they wanted to determine what or how the music industry influences the success of black performers. He had two hypothesis and the first one is concentration has a negative effect on the percentage of successful black performer acts. He found that decentralized production provides black performers with greater mainstream opportunities than had centralized production. They also found that racial tension increased black artists' mainstream success while having recession's actually decreased success. The other hypothesis is the expansion of decentralized production offsets the negative impact of centralization and has a positive effect on the percentage of successful Black acts. They also found that black s had less mainstream success when the music industry is concentrated and that they also enjoyed more success with a diverse market.