https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37 en-us 2018-02-15 20:37:06 UTC 2025-03-22 06:26:20 UTC hello@padlet.com ashleym26599 https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232205919 In terms of my personal experiences with participatory music such as karaoke, I have much experience with it within my own family. It is common for my family, especially my mother,  to bring out the karaoke machine at almost any family gathering and start singing. In these moments I value how singing together makes us feel and makes me almost forget how much time has passed since we started. It is spent so well and spent together. As for my partaking in presentational music, I believe I've been in much more settings where I was listening and watching a person or a group of perform. I've been to a few concerts and even to some open mic nights that UNT sets up and although I sing along sometimes, the performer is at the center. What I value most from these experiences is the ability to be able to see a performance and be able to appreciate it much more than if I were to be up there with them. Sara Haefeli said, "the practice of making music is not just a different kind of activity, but an inferior one" which is something that I had never really noticed until I read the article. In past articles or passages by Turnio have tried to show differences between types of music such as participatory and presentational but I had never thought that one was significantly better than the other just like performers and composers.    ]]> 2018-02-16 01:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232205919 ashleym26599 https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232224438 This is a video from Christmas last year and the people singing are my aunt and my dad. I would just like to say that this is not my dad's best singing and he has sung much better but this is what I have and even though it is not perfect, I believe that it is representative of what participatory music is like. It was something that came out of nowhere and although you cannot hear it in the video, people were singing along in the house. If I were to try to relate it to our readings this week then I would say its like "low art" as Haefeli says. The song itself is very simple and in the setting of the video, it is nothing special but to me, that doesn't make it any less important. ]]> 2018-02-16 04:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232224438 ashleym26599 https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232225805 This song represents a form of presentational music. It is not really meant to be sung along to or placed in a party scene. It is meant to be listened to and only played by the pianist. This is what can be considered "high art" as in something you would have to listen to to grasp and music that "engages the mind". Haefli tries to recognize these ideas of what high art and low art means and by their definition and article, this would be what is considered "good music". Although I personally do believe that this is a nice piece, I do not think that it should have the ability to knock down other pieces of music that may have just as much feeling but are in a genre that is considered bad in terms of art.]]> 2018-02-16 04:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232225805 ashleym26599 https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232226528 Liam is a member from One Direction who went on to make music in a very different genre from his usual pop. His new music has more dance elements included and many people do not consider it to be "good music". I think that after reading Nicholas Cooks article I recognized how many people still believe that a song is good or bad because of its genre or ability to "have meaning".  Cook says that people thought of bands who were not pop and not controlled by the music industry were "genuine authors". It makes sense why people prefer music that makes a statement or contains words straight from the heart but as Haefeli says, people believe that dance music is "too much inclined to the mechanical grinding out of identical units and therefore devoid of musical or cultural interest". I would love to stay away from this idea and maybe begin to see all kinds of music as having a possibility, in my mind, to have value.]]> 2018-02-16 04:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232226528 ashleym26599 https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232227516 I am including this image because I believe it perfectly sums up Cooks article. Personally, I respect all of the artists pictured (as artists) even if some of them are not my favorite. I will admit that for a portion of my life, I too believed that if it was pop, it was trash, but I no longer believe that. I think that there are songs on both ends of each genre that don't deserve appraisal but it is given because people have preferences just as the person who made this picture. This is a topic that should be talked about much more and explored much more by many critics. I understand not liking a genre but many people will automatically ignore one because it is pop or another because it is rock. That is something we should learn to go against and should judge a song for the elements that the song brings not the elements the entire genre brings. ]]> 2018-02-16 05:10:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ashleym26599/m6lq3calkq37/wish/232227516