{"id":1050,"date":"2015-05-12T23:35:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T06:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/danielsmusicalcity\/?p=151"},"modified":"2015-05-12T23:35:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T06:35:53","slug":"back-in-the-pnw-week-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/back-in-the-pnw-week-six\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the PNW (Week Six)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is wild to me that one week ago I was just getting into Alabama and now I am back sitting in my room in Olympia. It was such an amazing experience to drive that far across the country and see so much of how the United States changes over such a large amount of land. Since I last posted I did a lot of river laying, eating, drinking, and a lot more driving; but I also did a lot of thinking and listening. The time I was in Alabama I mostly spent in a small home on the side of a river, it was an incredibly peaceful and relaxing place to stay. It was interesting to me how much could be similar to home but so very different while i was in the south. We have rivers in Washington that probably have a similar look, but if you dig deeper you see how different things are. The trees, the color of the water, the fish, the birds, the sounds the birds make were all much different than home. I kept thinking about these differences, I would eat a lot of fish I eat fish in Alabama just like home, but it wasn’t fish I was used to. This really sums up what my time in the south was like, it is very similar to home in a large vague way, but it’s the small things that make you remember just how far away you are, and how different everything really is.<\/p>\n

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I have been to the south before so the environment was mind blowing, but I have never driven there. I have never seen the environment around me change so gradually along with the people and the culture in it. It was a crazy experience to be able to see change happen like that. The drive also again brought me back to the Ecotopia book by Ernest Callenbach and the idea of Cascadia. I am not the most patriotic person, I don’t always have a great sense of pride in my country, or even the view that we live in the greatest country in the world; but I do identify as an American. Except, this trip actually made me challenge that, because when I was traveling around America I wondered if I identify with the entirety of America or just the Pacific Northwest. This notion of taking more pride in the PNW than all America was mostly inspired by going to the south and really listening to how things are different. It is like the world moves in a different way in the south. Things felt slower, and older, and people more nostalgic. It very much felt like I could be in a different country. On the way back driving for hour, after hour, after hour; I kept thinking \u201cWow we could really split things up!\u201d Western Texas looked nothing like Eastern Texas, and Louisiana felt much different from the rest of the South. All these places are so different from each other it reminded me of how every once in a while someone talks about splitting Western and Eastern Washington because the two sides seem to have little in common. It is really interesting to me we can be from such varied places and all be called American.<\/p>\n

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I started out this field study with the intention of looking for trends in Seattle music to see if there is a way the city effects what is being created there. However after this trip and my ever changing interest, I keep zooming out and looking at not just Seattle, not just Washington, but the overall Pacific Northwest. I think my field study has broadened not just to looking at a Seattle sound, but looking at the music from the Pacific Northwest as a whole. This next week I will be doing very little driving in comparison to the last couple, and I will be able to be in Seattle for an extended period of time for more research.<\/p>\n

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It is wild to me that one week ago I was just getting into Alabama and now I am back sitting in my room in Olympia. It was such an amazing experience to drive that far across the country and see so much of how the United States changes over such a large amount of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[],"tags":[99],"geo":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/musicalcities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}