In Marguerite de Bourgoing goes into describing seven practices of transmedia and how these seven practices effects hip hop. What I got from this reading overall was that technology is a huge stepping stone for hip hop. That this idea that a blog or social network shout out could at anytime generate a new fan. This is cool because there are so many blogs out there. For example Hype machine is an online radio station that suggests new blog and cool artist all the time.
As I read the law it basically was take action and make things your own. However the law I thought was most interesting was law six. Law six was all about the ladies!
With hip hop mostly being all guys, with the help and aid of technology hip hop is seeing more and more women. Basically what I got out of this was women are starting to realize the potential power and force they have in hip hop. Bourgoing later describes this female radio star who is from LA. Saying that she is huge and those hip hop artist haven’t made it if they aren’t on her show. This was a cool concept. A mostly male dominated environment that respects a women’s opinion.
In general how could Bourgoing not be connected to what we are talking about in class. I find music and visual art to be very similar. I create artwork by using others art. For example photoshop. This is just like music, like “Girltalk”. How can this not be considered art if the artist is making a new sound, sure they are taking already made art but they are recreating it to make something unique. In the beginning of class we spoke about how copy right laws need to be mended. I still believe they do because the times are changing and laws on art are getting blurred.
You make some good points here, but didn't quite do enough to illustrate to me that you really "get" the reading (feels like one of those posts, whether it is or not, where you glanced quickly at a reading and decided to say a few things about your perceptions of it). Also, you're missing the part on Miller.
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