Monday, May 26, 2008
GDR Rock Music
This article in the reader was particularly long and confusing. The only thing that I got out of it was a faint idea of how rock and punk rock music moved through the restrictions of the GDR and came out representing some sort of German nationalism. I really liked one particular quote though, "But when it came to sound waves, the border was permeable." I liked it because it is so true about music in general. Music transcends boundaries that are otherwise impermeable. Music is powerful. I guess I could take out of this confusion why it was confusing. I feel like every time I have to look up every other word in a sentence, the flow is broken up and I get involved in definition rather than the original meaning. That is what Simpson did. There were too many words that needed defining or had a few definitions and needed interpretation. Thats what made it so hard to read
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3 comments:
in agreement about the long and confusingness of this text, rachel... if people can try to pull out some words that they don't know, that might help us to get down the basics. try to include this in blog posts, if possible.
I don't think it was a matter of a few words, the issue I had was with the fact that every other word either had a history that was unexplained or that had different meanings that had to be sifted through.
right, i think that's what i meant...
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