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Negus Response

“This is the way in which the music industry rewards and recognizes certain genre practices, sounds, combinations, cultures and not

I really enjoyed the Negus reading on the recording industry. I think the point that was the most interesting was

This weeks readings immediately reminded me of a new television show, “Wisdom of the Crowd”. This show draws on the

I enjoyed Gates input on the film “Get Out” as I had never viewed it in the way he has,

In the Negus reading, he talks a lot about taste in the music industry and more specifically, genre. Negus touched

“Such a process of cultural legitimation functions to newly align certain kinds of media with certain kinds of audiences”

In the Negus reading, he talks about how hard it is to break into the music industry because of the

If you look at iTunes’ Top Charts, you won’t see much diversity in the music selection until you get down

Elana Levine and Michael Newman defined the idea of taste and the role it plays on culture and socioeconomic groups.

It is very easy for an outsider to not understand the inner workings of the musical industry, or any industry