Assignment 3

I prefer the Gottschalk version of the Star-Spangled Banner over the South City Voices because I really enjoyed it with the piano parts playing especially in the beginning .  Although I very much did enjoy the south city voices because I loved their voices. It was so relaxing to just lay back and listen to Gottschalk and hear all the different sounds after listening to it five times. I listened to Igor version about seven times and I think i finally could hear the difference of SSB than how it would normally sound.

When I listened to Stravinsky and Hendrix I did not find it offensive at all. I enjoyed the Hendrix version with the guitar. Back in that time I can understand why people took it as offensive. They took it as offensive because this something that is near and dear to people’s heart and these two people changed it and decided to make it their own. People are not always okay with change. I would like to know why they wanted lgor arrested for it but not Hendrix? Maybe because he was a musician that was well like by people and Igor was not so much.