Last week, we talked about where we find our music. We had great answers! Many included: store, church, school, from instruments, at concerts, in the car, on the radio, from an 'i' device or computer, etc. We then took a trip through music listening history and talked about records, cassettes, CD's and eventually MP3's. For many it was the first they they ever saw a record close-up (maybe even a cassette). Our focus was how listening to music was a social experience when all we had were records which were really not portable. As time progressed, music has become less and less social and more personal. I blame Sony and the invention of the first Walkman. Do you remember these? My first walkman had orange headphones. This was the first opportunity to take our music with us on the trail, on the bike, or wherever and not share it with anyone but yourself. Thus, taking the social aspect out of music and becoming more personal.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? As the year progresses, we'll continue to address this issue and in the Jr High, students will have the opportunity to share their music with their class. We'll continue to stress the importance of respecting each other's musical tastes.
We continue to work on songs for the next school Mass (Oct 4 - 10:30am) and last week, we even began a song for the Christmas Program.
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