CUNY Academic Commons | Norvel Wallace | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/norvelw/activity/ Activity feed for Norvel Wallace. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 c53e36048254f4c3d2c6d3f540e54b1c Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Participation Post for "Music and Nation" | Week of 4/29-5/6, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/participation-post-for-music-and-nation-week-of-4-29-5-6/#comment-760 Fri, 08 May 2020 02:43:46 -0400 I agree with your opinion that Hendrix’s controversy was more serious than Fergie’s controversy, as Fergie was just laughed at for a couple weeks after the incident, while Hendrix’s Woodstock performance is still […]

]]> ddf8c3c87619cbc6f02ba470fdc0462b Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Participation Post for "Music and Nation" | Week of 4/29-5/6, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/participation-post-for-music-and-nation-week-of-4-29-5-6/#comment-759 Fri, 08 May 2020 02:34:28 -0400 1. Both of these performances were very controversial, but for different reasons. Hendrix’s performance came during the peak of the Vietnam War, which many Americans did not support, and was criticized afterwards […]

]]> 23d1f7796f128658cf90868f7b726639 Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Blog 8, Thorpe, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-8-thorpe/#comment-748 Thu, 07 May 2020 03:08:44 -0400 Hello, I liked how you explained that different people may have different interpretations of the song, as it’s something I never noticed before while listening to it. As a person who did a song from the same […]

]]> 3a6902c4158217d268d5e9c08ab4f78f Norvel Wallace edited the blog post Blog 8 Wallace in the group Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-8-wallace/ Wed, 06 May 2020 23:28:55 -0400 The piece I decided to discuss is “Alright” by Kendrick Lamar, which became associated with may different rallies with in the Black Lives Matter movement, and talks about police brutality as a whole against […]

]]> 9a071c4292a5d91f83c0f02f0f5f653f Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Khan blog 6, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/khan-blog-6/#comment-550 Thu, 09 Apr 2020 03:04:27 -0400 Hello, I like how your blog includes multiple types of reggae music, and including Koffee – Toast is a good way to show the recognition the the genre has received, and the popularity that it still enjoys. It’s […]

]]> 55c60bd25e62bd9df515fb90bcfc37ed Norvel Wallace edited the blog post Blog 6 Wallace in the group Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-6-wallace/ Thu, 09 Apr 2020 02:02:14 -0400 Both of my parents are Jamaican, and the music genre most popularly associated with Jamaica is reggae. Created in the late 60s, it quickly became extremely popular throughout the island in the 1970s, and reached […]

]]> f63f720e8c92c4bd1ee6796cd7384949 Norvel Wallace edited the blog post Blog 5 Wallace in the group Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-5-wallace/ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 01:43:52 -0400 After watching all 4 performances, the type of performance I would be most comfortable with as an audience member is definitely the jazz club. In the example of the jazz club the atmosphere felt more comfortable, […]

]]> f827269c7bf9ccb9dc14ec296511a9cb Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Participation Post for "Music in Concert", Week of 3/18-3/25, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/participation-post-for-music-in-concert/#comment-366 Sat, 21 Mar 2020 21:05:54 -0400 1. How is the audience behaving? What are they doing?
The audience is singing along to the lyrics of the song, and some of them are recording Khalid and and other performers on stage. Some others are also waving […]

]]> f986ed699419e5adeef0126c08ee46ac Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Allycia, Blog 4, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/allycia-blog-4/#comment-333 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:28:44 -0400 Hello, I also agree with the music from the car being both diegetic and non-diegetic. Also, it was interesting that you added the translation and related it to Andre’s predicament.

]]> db3de92791c6c8b23f9a7a4986d2c358 Norvel Wallace edited the blog post Blog 4 Wallace in the group Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-4-wallace/ Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:07:54 -0400 In the movie clip I chose (the opening scene of Get Out), a black man (Logan) is lost and talking to a friend on the phone, when a white car starts to trail him. Clearly feeling uncomfortable, he turns back, and […]

]]> a86569b3231675dcb151fca65c75384b Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Khan Nadiyah Blog 3, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/khan-nadiyah-blog-3/#comment-291 Sun, 08 Mar 2020 03:08:32 -0400 Hello, I like your post a lot because SoundCloud is probably the biggest platform that an artist can blow up on nowadays, as its’s free and anyone can listen to music that is released. I completely forgot that […]

]]> ae220431db2eba3898cf6033a0b53e99 Norvel Wallace edited the blog post Blog 3 Wallace in the group Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-3-wallace/ Sun, 08 Mar 2020 01:51:33 -0500 The piece of musical technology that I decided to choose is an instrument, the piano. The piano is a keyboard musical instrument (invented around the year 1700 by Bartolomeo Cristofori) that has wire strings, […]

]]> af959127f3fc233288233ac29d2557ea Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Blog 2, Wang M, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-2-wang-m/#comment-254 Sun, 16 Feb 2020 16:24:15 -0500 Hey, I like how you identified one of the instruments that were used in Alapana in order to show how timbre was included in the piece, in contrast to Kyrie from the Pope Marcellus Mass. I also liked that you […]

]]> d5b6b14dd3b8a1ef5a4c90e28df938af Norvel Wallace edited the blog post Blog 2 Wallace in the group Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-2-wallace/ Sun, 16 Feb 2020 06:12:57 -0500 The two listening examples I chose to use were Alapana from Sitar, Sarode, and Tabla, and Kyrie from the Pope Marcellus Mass, and the three musical elements I will be discussing in tandem with them is harmony, […]

]]> 39d86455684bbedbf22b6b77ace936ff Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Blog 1 Lu, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-1-lu/#comment-228 Sun, 09 Feb 2020 18:52:30 -0500 Your blog post was very informational, and I liked how you linked the translation of the word Renaissance to the actual rebirth of music in this time period. The music created during this time was indeed very […]

]]> e26625ccc975b2539eca2f431f40a33a Norvel Wallace edited the blog post Blog 1 Wallace in the group Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog-1-wallace/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 05:17:42 -0500 The Twentieth-Century Period was characterized by remarkable new innovations in many different fields, and things that excited me about this period included the new genres of music that were started during this […]

]]> d5f7725fb9147dbe89a197a0064d335c Norvel Wallace commented on the post, Welcome!, on the groupblog Exploring Music Spring 2020 https://expmusspring20.commons.gc.cuny.edu/welcome/#comment-198 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 19:49:01 -0500 Hello, my name is Norvel Wallace, and I am currently an undergraduate sophomore who plans to major in Finance. My favorite genres of music include hip-hop/rap and R&B, and my favorite artists include Kendrick […]

]]> e3599fc39896896e2857363009ebb527 Norvel Wallace became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/643108/ Wed, 29 Jan 2020 01:50:31 -0500