{"id":1769,"date":"2017-05-10T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2017-05-10T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T16:18:11","slug":"growing-up-with-dead-artists-blog-post-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/05\/10\/growing-up-with-dead-artists-blog-post-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing up with dead artists? (blog post #4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While reading a portion of the assigned reading <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA Resonant Tomb\u201d from Jonathan Sterne\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Audible Past, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I was fascinated at how much emphasis was put on the difference between imagination and the practice of sound recording. Early recordings were seen as a method of immortalizing someone, but how successful were they? \u00a0Stern acknowledges that the process of sound recording protects present and future auditors from experiencing the deterioration of the voice. Sound recordings also separate body and voice in two different categories. One of the most unique examples from the reading was the funeral of the minister. Once he felt that he is going to die soon, he recorded his final sermon. This unusual act brought a lot of attention from the population as well as media. It was like a big mysterious spectacle where a dead person was preaching to the living. During those times people were astonished that a person that died could still talk to them, whereas today recordings are so normalized that they are not regarded as anything other than old technology. After the reading I really thought about this matter and realized that some people grew up admiring and following singers that are no longer with us. One of the prime examples is Tupac Shakur who was murdered in 1996. Even though that time is long past us, people still live with his songs as inspiration. Some even go the extra length to refuse he is actually dead. Every couple months I would run into one of those articles that are talking about how Tupac actually faked his whole death to get out of gang warfare and live anonymously somewhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoli.com\/threads\/tupac-shakur-died-18-years-ago-today-a-look-back-at-rap%E2%80%99s-most-influential-mc.248878\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.inquisitr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1202939-2pac-tupac-death-row-press-617-409.jpg\" alt=\"[\u200bIMG]\" width=\"670\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a> Retrieved from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecoli.com\/threads\/tupac-shakur-died-18-years-ago-today-a-look-back-at-rap%E2%80%99s-most-influential-mc.248878\/%5B\/caption%5DPeace\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.thecoli.com\/threads\/tupac-shakur-died-18-years-ago-today-a-look-back-at-rap%E2%80%99s-most-influential-mc.248878\/%5B\/caption%5DPeace<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>Duka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While reading a portion of the assigned reading \u201cA Resonant Tomb\u201d from Jonathan Sterne\u2019s The Audible Past, I was fascinated at how much emphasis was put on the difference between imagination and the practice of sound recording. Early recordings were seen as a method of immortalizing someone, but how successful were they? \u00a0Stern acknowledges that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/05\/10\/growing-up-with-dead-artists-blog-post-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing up with dead artists? 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