The first article, "Cape Verdean Creole and the Politics of Scene-Making in Lisbon, Portugal" by Derek Pardue is about the performance and acceptance of Kriolu rap in Lisbon, Portugal. Some people for Kriolu rap attractive and others found it disturbing and offensive at the time of its emergence. It began with a group of mostly young men of Cape Verdean descent, singing or rapping in a Creole language that is not an official language in Portugal or Cape Verde. Throughout the author's studies of the rap lyrics, a study of the Kriolu language itself, and conversations with the rappers, he found that Kriolu rap is a, "renewed interrogation of diaspora and of place-based identity." He also found that Kriolu rap offers some insight into the relationship between music and social claims.
The first article "Building a Better PIG: A Historical Survey of the PMRC and it's tactics," is about the history of censorship of various types of music by the Parents Music Resource Center. The article states that Mary Elizabeth Gore purchased a copy of Prince's, "Purple Rain" for her daughter and was extremely upset when she heard the explicit lyrics describing sexual activities. This enraged her enough that she and her friend, Susan Baker, created The Parents Music Resource Center whose main job was to scrutinize the music that children listened to and control that medium.
The second article, "The Diaspora Of West Africa: The Influence Of West African Cultures On 'Jody Calls' In The United States Military," is about how marching cadences used by the United States Military, when studied throughout history, has evolved from the slave songs and the music of pre-colonial West Africa. This article describes the six elements that explain this evolution: call and response songs, cadences that focus on the voice, a percussive backbeat to create energy, functionality in nature, focus on the experiences of daily living, and a long oral history.
In all honesty I do not see how these two articles are very similar at all. However, there differences are abundant. One article, "Building a Better PIG: A Historical Survey of the PMRC and it's tactics," describes the history of an organization and how it got started by Al Gore's wife, Mary Elizabeth. The second, "The Diaspora Of West Africa: The Influence Of West African Cultures On 'Jody Calls' In The United States Military," is about the origin of Military calls and cadences and how they have evolved since their first introduction into the United States Military. They also differ because one is a just a basic history and the second is an actual study of how West African Culture influences.On December 13, 2014, I interviewed one of my coworker. I asked his opinion about homelessness and hunger in the United States. He stated that he thinks that Homelessness and hunger is choice of individual for most of cases. Some people do have opportunity to work but they prefer to get free money and they are so used of free money. They should try to find job and they should dedicate to find a job. They shouldn't give up. Government should try to generate more jobs. And homeless people should try to move if they can't find job in that city. They should go to places and check if they are hiring. They shouldn't rely on government. Some people need food stamps and welfare. I know majority of people they get food stamps and welfare and they shouldn't get. They prefer to be lazy and not work. I pay my taxes, I drive Honda 2001. I know people who take welfare and they drive 80,000 worth of car. I think government should know of those kinds of people.
On December 8 2014, I interviewed one of my classmates. I asked her opinion about justice system in the United States. She mentioned that she doesn't think that our justice system is fair for each citizen.it is unfairly bias toward certain race. Mostly where police car is parked is the neighborhood of black people; for example, it is mostly parked in black societies or Hispanic neighborhood. Sexual abuse victim for example yes means yes is still racial. Criminal justice system in the United States is bias. Most of the time female are the victim and that is bias. When they investigate they still doubt on victim. She thinks in general people know how criminal look like. It is racist when people in the United States think of terrorist they think of Muslim, and Middle East and it is unfair for those people. America is racist and I don't think its necessary fair for everyone. She thought protest was very interesting; for example Ferguson case. They found a judge whose dad was killed by a black guy.
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Talked about music diversity and comparing it to music from ten years ago. Interviewee says that she does not believe there is music diversity. Says she cannot really compare music now to music from ten years ago because she is still very young and cannot remember music from ten years ago. Then, says that the predominant music she listens to which is rock has very heavy stereotype, especially when it comes to their audience and what they look like.
Interviewee says that streaming music has definitely replaced the production of music. Then says music is valuable, but she also refuses to buy it because it is absurd to buy an entire album when she is only going to listen to a couple of songs. Disregards the artists and how it effects them because she feels as though they make a lot of money anyway so why waste time buying their music when they can get their music for free.
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Interviewed a Fresno State student regarding homeless and we decided to define homeless as not having a home, living out of your car, on different homes every other day, on the street, or in shelters. Discusses how she just found out how that homeless individuals in Clovis gets shipped to Fresno. Interviewee also says how she recently encountered an individual who was living out of his car and could not tell that they were actually homeless because they did not look the part, then proceeds to say she does not profile.
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Do you think the social justice system is fair to all groups? Interviewee says that the system is set up correctly, but the individuals in the system steer the system away from its original intent. Speaks about the heavy policing in poor neighborhoods and how he had to deal with that before he moved to a better up and coming neighborhood. Says there are many factors that contributes to the system and because of this the system has to be modified.
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Asked if he believes the criminal justice system is fair to all groups. Interviewee dives into the recent events and how the police officer who shot and murdered Michael Brown and the police officer who choked and killed Eric Garner both were set free and not indicted. Admit that even when he does not have all the evidence he does have some bias when it comes to men of color getting killed by law enforcement. We talked about the situation that happened with Michael Brown and talked about what evidence they had and how much of it was valuable.
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As my first official interview, I was to ask my classmate about homelessness, music, crime/police, and inequality. My interviewee agreed and we continued. The interviewee lives in the Tulare County area and in the first part, they didn't believe they had a big issue when it came to homelessness.
The next topic was music and they weren't very fond of rock or Metal at all! They said this gives them a big headache when listened to. Some of the music that I was fond of or never heard of was surprisingly the same as my interviewee.
The next section being crime and police, it seems by the looks of it, where the interviewee lives, they don't seem to go through a lot of violence or crime. They made it seem like they live in a quiet and safe neighborhood. They didn't really have any conflict with the police or vice versa.
The last section had to do with inequality. The interviewee said this has to do with majority and minority of groups. They felt this is somewhat accused upon them. They come from a family that showed them to be independent and do the right thing, you might say.
When it came to food, they said they would want to spend less when it came to nutrition programs for poor children and families, food stamps, and school lunches. Moving on, they categorized themselves as Christian-Catholic, attended religious services two to three times per year, and rarely chatted with their neighbors. They were working on their four year degree, and are Hispanic. They weren't married, and they are a student who is working full time. Busy schedule I might add. They were older than I was, and I found out that we live in the same area. They had no other comments that they wanted to add on, so this is where our interview ended. Overall, I liked this experience. It was straight to the point.
We were told to do an interview that had to do with either, Columbus day (Ingenious Day) or how did we see consent, how did we defined it. My partner and I felt nervous for the first time that we weren't even able to finish the interview fully. I was able to start off the interview though and get some of her feedback. The interviewee felt that consent was the topic to choose for herself since she didn't really have any comments towards Columbus Day; I felt the same way.
She also felt that consent in her words mean "Individual feelings." What she meant by this, is that it's a personal stance, no other person is speaking for you. So if you condone it, then this means you mean it and are consenting, and vice versa. This was as far as we were able to get in our interview. Overall, as a first time experience, time means everything.
