{"id":7465,"date":"2021-04-19T20:03:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T00:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=7465"},"modified":"2021-04-19T20:03:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T00:03:24","slug":"blog-post-4-20-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2021\/04\/19\/blog-post-4-20-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post 4\/20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting thing I read for today&#8217;s class came from the <em>Beysthetics<\/em>\u00a0reading, which talks about the way Beyonce &#8220;has earned the right to claim her spot among the greats&#8221;, and it is because she has earned the right that she is able to elevate her family and her lineage. It&#8217;s kind of patronizing the way it seems she only gets to talk about her lineage positively because she has worked her way to the top of the music industry. And it&#8217;s not just her own specific lineage but that of all black people that she feels like they can only be raised up now at this point in her career. While she most definitely has earned the right to do pretty much anything, I don&#8217;t think this is something in which a right needs to be earned.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the podcast, I was shocked by how important music really is for so many different reasons. I obviously know that music is a universal language and brings people together, so it is important in that regard, but its association with protest is something I hadn&#8217;t ever thought of before. It is used for propaganda, to communicate to others, and to convince people to join your side. The way music changes with the times and the way one song can make such a difference is mind blowing. But in watching the\u00a0<em>Formation\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>This is America\u00a0<\/em>music videos I realized how important it is to listen to the lyrics. Something can sound like pop and pure entertainment, but the words are deeper than the surface and they can make people feel things and change minds. This brings me back to our previous discussion on context, which goes for music as well. The meaning behind lyrics of songs is dependent entirely on the time period, the artist, and the intended audience. Taking songs out of their context strips them of their meaning, so we must make an effort to understand the context of music in addition to just listening to the words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most interesting thing I read for today&#8217;s class came from the Beysthetics\u00a0reading, which talks about the way Beyonce &#8220;has earned the right to claim her spot among the greats&#8221;, and it is because she has earned the right that she is able to elevate her family and her lineage. It&#8217;s kind of patronizing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7468,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7465\/revisions\/7468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}