Music & Family

Music & Family 

Personally, from my experience, I don't think that music and family go together. My whole family has diverse music tastes, as different from other families they may have certain music they listen to during family gatherings and such. In my family, everyone has their own kind of music taste. I only have two other family members who somewhat like the same kind of music: my grandmother and her sister. I decided to interview my grandmother's sister (Didi). After interviewing her I can see how she and I relate on many different levels when it comes to music taste. A little background on my aunt. She's Italian and grew up in the Bronx, New York, she also played the flute when she was younger but did not enjoy it, she only had to play because of school. 

To start off I asked what her favorite type of music is, she loves disco music, more of the 70s and early 80s disco music. She also really likes Michael Jackson, who is her number one artist. He was a very big hit when I was young. She also likes the carpenters, Led Zeppelin, Carly Simon, Dianna Ross, and Eric Clapton. I can agree with most of these artists. I really like Led Zeppelin as well as Eric Clapton. She enjoys this type of music Because you can dance to it and it has meaning, unlike all the rap music everyone listens to nowadays. Her music taste has not changed much over the years she's always listened to this type of music even to this day. In her eyes and I can agree with this, the kind of music she wants to listen to at a moment depends on the kind of mood she's in. whether she wants to hear disco, or some psychedelic depends on her mood. The song added below is a classic song from Eric Clapton. 

In Didi’s opinion, her family did not influence the type of music; in reality, they hated her type of music. In her younger early teenage years, she listened to The Jackson 5, in the 60s it was Jimi Hendrix, in her opinion he was just okay but not her favorite, also Janis Joplin, as she got a little older, she started to like disco music because this was when they started going to clubs and this was the type of club music then. When she was a kid they listened to music through record players, the old ones, then as time went on you listened to tape decks, then it went to the stereo in like the 70s. You could play your 45 or your albums. As time went on and this technology started to evolve, she liked the tapes much better; it went from song to song, and with the record player you had to keep taking it off and putting another one on. 

Her least favorite music type is rap because it has no meaning, it's all violent, it's all about guns and killing, it has no meaning or story behind it, and you can't even dance to it. She is set on the type of music she likes because when you're sad you play some music it gets you out of a mood, if you're happy and u want to dance u put good music on, it gives u energy. the song added below is a classic song from Janis Joplin. 

Overall, in my opinion, music brings me together with some members of my family but I cannot relate to music bringing a whole family together from my experience.