In Starr and Waterman's American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3 Chapter 6 talks about the Swing era in the 1930s and 1940s. At the beginning of the chapter when it starts to talk about how swing music played into American culture at the time it reminded me a lot of our discussion in class on Tuesday about the Grammy's. Music in general gives us insight about the culture that we live in, just like how "swing music music provides us with a window onto the cultural values and social changes of the New Deal era" (p. 121). I totally agree that music is a reflection of what goes on in our society. I think in this generation people, especially musical performers, are trying to push the limits to what they can say on television and sing in songs. Basically, they're trying to see how far they can go publicly with raunchy material. I think it's pretty evident in popular music today. Every time I listen on the radio random parts of different songs are being edited because there is foul or obscene language that is not appropriate to be played in the daytime. Even during the Grammy's some performances had to be edited for their content on television. Dr. Dre and Eminem's performance was one of them, along with Cee Lo Green's hit song "Forget You." The actual undedited version of the song is called "Fuck You." As our culture develops and is shaped throughout the years new boundaries are being broken to go along with social change.