{"id":688,"date":"2018-09-19T04:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T04:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2018-09-19T04:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T04:41:01","slug":"crossing-the-color-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/blog-09\/crossing-the-color-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Color Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stover states very early on that &#8220;Race in America is a visual phenomenon.&#8221; (3) I found it interesting that how she then translates this largely visual form of discrimination into an auditory form by introducing the\u00a0<em>Sonic Color Line.\u00a0<\/em>Stover explains this term in saying &#8220;The Sonic Color Line connects sound with race in American culture, showing how listening operates as an organ of racial discernment, categorization, and resistance in the shadow of vision\u2019s alleged cultural dominance.&#8221; (4) Something that appeared to me to challenge this concept is the example we viewed in class of Taylor Swifts cover of September, by Earth Wind &amp; Fire. Although I struggled to find a clear definition of the characteristics of dividing line that Stover surrounds her essay around, she mentioned culture having a large role in the sonic color line. Listening and the way different people perceive sounds is somewhat subjective, so that should be kept in mind, however there is a cultural difference in the two distinct versions of September. Earth Wind &amp; Fire&#8217;s music has spanned across many genres including, R&amp;B, soul, jazz, and disco, which all have a certain culture surrounding them. Taylor Swift, in her rendition of the song, translates the piece in to a new genre of pop\/country. The culture and history between these two groups of genres are very distinct, yet are connected by a similar song, even though sung by one artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stover states very early on that &#8220;Race in America is a visual phenomenon.&#8221; (3) I found it interesting that how she then translates this largely visual form of discrimination into an auditory form by introducing the\u00a0Sonic Color Line.\u00a0Stover explains this term in saying &#8220;The Sonic Color Line connects sound with race in American culture, showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-09","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}