Week 11 Blog Post

“Digging into Pandora’s Music Genome with musicologist Nolan Gasser” was eye opening. Up until recently when I began using Apple Music I had used Pandora. It was as simple as searching for the artist I was in the ,old to listen to and I would not only hear songs from that artist but from similar artists and even was able to find new songs and artists that I would have not heard otherwise. I love reggae music but similar to Nolan Gasser and his appreciation for classical music, it is not something that is often heard on mainstream media. The few songs that the radio does play are often repeated anytime a reggae break is taken on the radio. The creation of the Music Genome Project has allowed for Pandora to not only allow ,e to listen to reggae but reggae ton, soca,ska and calypso which are all music genres well know throughout the Caribbean. If I turned on the station for reggae singer Rupee I would had his songs along with popular Reggaeton singer Daddy Yankee.

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