"What gets recorded is what gets remembered."
Blog #7 “What gets recorded is what gets remembered.” "What gets recorded is what gets remembered." This axiomatic phrase is loaded with a spectacular galaxy of minefields, and should be entered with appropriate trepidation - because of its truth, its untruth, and its slippery ambiguity. If the common assumption is that this blog should represent the three readings relevant to the present class project - about Country music also having black roots (Gidden); about a white academic chronicling black music (Lomax); and the changing access of digital information availability to academic institutions (Hoek), then we can follow a very neatly compact satisfaction of easily predictable conclusions and morals: 1) that blacks in the US can be "written out" of their own historic musical roots (at least partially, with a view to country music) due to marketing facto...