Blog post B #3

Trey Lowe

There is one main connection between “Close To Home: A Conversation About Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ and “How #BlackLivesMatter started a musical revolution”. This connection is that both of these reading are related to making people uncomfortable. In the piece about Beyonce, Regina Bradley says,”I think what made folks uncomfortable was the fact that she was pulling from not only a blues tradition, but a southern black woman blues tradition.” This made people uncomfortable because they are not used to seeing black women in the main stream and using older black women’s music to create it. In the black lives matter text, the author says, “That kind of musical statement, the sound of black sonic dissent, has a history to it that stretches across the centuries and could surely make a mixtape for the ages”. Protest music also makes people uncomfortable because it brings up issues in society that people try to avoid. Both of these texts have to do with making people uncomfortable. This is intriguing to me because music can have an impact on societal issues in the world.