Disco music was the platform for self-expression for the gay community in the 70s, the repetitive consistence beat created the discipline for dancing disco, while simultaneously liberating the self in the beat of disco music. A more contemporary dance music that evolved from the disco era is electronic music with all its sub-genres, from techno, drum and bass, rave, house, or dubstep. The main similarity is the of use electronic tools to make music but differs in the fact that it is not made exclusively for LGTB community, everyone enjoys dancing electronic music. The beat is repetitive as well in the electronic music and consistence of the rhythm are like disco music. When people dance electronic music, they feel liberated like gays dancing in the 70s.

Other genre that in a certain way can be like disco music is reggaeton. Disco music evoke sensuality in the form of dance. Reggaeton in the other hand have a different but persistence beat that also use dance or “perreo” as a sensual expression of the dancers. Reggaeton evolved to become a dance music for the clubs, where young people go to dance and express their sensuality through the beat. Reggaeton goes beyond desire and pleasure of disco music, it is a statement of Latino young kids that are looking for freedom from authorities figures and at the same time they are exploring their sensuality trough music and dance.    

Commuting in the subway can be a stressing experience, delays, creepy people doing crazy things, or annoy people who want to sell anything. All these things can be ignored with headphones, play your favorite music, and disconnect from everything around. This is my experience using headphones in the subway as a personal oasis from all the noises around. Some places are not designed to share music, I don’t want to hear your music and you don’t want to hear mine, so the solution to this problem is headphones. Matt Alt describe the Walkman as a “Do Not Disturb” sign telling others that I don’t want to engage with them at that moment. It seems like antisocial, but we all need a personal space in this busy city.

 In contrast to headphones, we have speakers, radios and other devices that are portable and are made to share music with others. It is common in the summer to hear music in the streets coming from everywhere. The old folks listening to salsa in their apartment’s doorsteps, the car blasting the speakers with a sound that is so loud that is indistinguishable to enjoy or bike riders playing music from their portable speaking hanging from their shoulders. All these scenarios are pleasant to the ears, because it is expected to find a street corner in NYC filled with music. It is not self-centrist as the use of headphones, it is the socialization of music. Krukowski essay is very interesting, the analysis between music and space is important to define or judge human behavior. Making music made us humans and we have the control to manipulate sounds and noises and use it for our personal and collective interests.

Both Ellison and Sacks illustrated in their essays how music directly and indirectly affect the characters of a person. Sacks presented extremes cases of people without any particular interest in music developed an intense desire to play or compose music after an accident. The question being made is how those people got that music and artistic affination? It looks like their brain was rewire and they developed new talents and most important the compulsive desire to perform music. There is not scientific explanation for their personality behaviors, we only must understand that maybe some people have “hiding” talents or desires that are release under physiological changes like being struck lighting. Like musicians that are “born’ with skills to perform any instrument, the persons in Sack’s essay were born again and acquired those skills.

In the other hand the experience of Ellison is the results of his external environment in contrast to Sacks’s essay where the people experience an internal stimulus from physiological changes. Ellison had negative experience with music because of the proximity of the music to his apartment. If his living space was a detached house in the suburbs, his musical experience would had been different. The over stimulation of music caused a minor change in his brain too, not at the same level of the people who had suffered brain injuries, but a similar affiliation to music was emerged.