Levitsky Music Hum Fall 2019 Class Blog

Alongside Sonata V by John Cage, I have chosen Yves Tumor’s music video for their song “Licking an Orchid.” Sonata V, due to its eerie and strange sound, has a sort of suspenseful nature to it. And in thinking of this suspense, I look to the work’s lack of a clear meter as perhaps a… Read more

During the Harlem Renaissance, Jazz was used as a tool to display Black extravagance, since African-Americans were deemed to be devoid of culture. The “A train” was the quickest way to get to Sugar Hill, which is where Black Harlem royalty lived. In our contemporary time, Beyoncé is apart of the cultural elite. In “Get… Read more