While learning about the history of distribution, we learn how music can travel just as people do. Specifically, we discussed country music and how people in the city appreciated the nostalgia from their old life in the country. Although the people themselves were displaced, music allowed them to feel the comforts of home.

In Miller’s Segregating Sound, he discussed the musical color line in which the music industry has made certain sounds racialized. This is why when I think of Country music, I think of a white person. When I used to think about race being attached to a genre, I never questioned where these stereotypes came from. It was just a fact to me that African-American’s tended to listen to hip hop. But now knowing where this racialization has stemmed from, I believe its based on unfair stereotypes and prejudices.