In the “Power” episode by Damon Krukowski states, “But might it [the marginal-the rejected-the repressed] not be a key to alternate approaches to art, to society-to power itself?” His assertion refers to significant companies deciding what is olden, not crucial to humanity, and the consumers no longer need. How technology has taken people’s freedom away to go into a store to shop, explore, and recognize what items they need. When customers order online, they write the information on what they are looking for in the search bar. And according to what you entered, the computer takes you explicitly to that component and provides you with other objects you might interest in.
Music indicates the differences between the powerful and the marginalized by the music companies deciding through an algorithm what songs you might like listening to verses an expert telling you which songs you will enjoy listening to now. Electric components have taken away from having human contact to talk with a music expert to obtain knowledgeable feedback or come upon new things that you never thought you might be interested in listening to now. This way, it gives you the power to control your decision-making instead of technology analysis choosing for you.

Every song is different from other and with each song you learn new things. As he said these days you can get music from anywhere as mostly from phone and it’s impossible for us to listen to all the music. Music is something that connects and makes us wanna listen more. With music it’s hard to find some other music related to it. As music isn’t all about what you hear but the words and meaning to listeners. With the technology it’s easier to get musics but impossible to access all music. We all have something that we like as each music is different so with new music apps it predicts the music that we have already heard but also related.

Damon asks” But might it [the marginal-the rejected-the repressed] not be a key to alternate approaches to art, to society-to power itself?’ Krukowski is trying to convey that maybe the overlooked and undervalued are vital to the discovery of different types of art. For years humans constantly push aside certain things due to the technological advancement of others. But what if people gave more attention to the traditional way of doing things? Maybe it can be an outlet for those trying to discover something that is in the minority rather than the majority. 

Music has the ability to demonstrate the deviations of the disparaged and the powerful. Krukowski conveys that big corporations such as Apple Music and Spotify heavily dictate what is played. This is due to the computer algorithms these companies input to manipulate what you hear. It is a prime example of the powerful using its resources to dominate and control what is used in society. Krukowski suggested that we can avoid these controlling algorithms by walking into a bookstore. But sadly in this day and age where big corporations have the technology to list millions of shelves of musicians in an instant, traditional bookstores cant compete. This displays how music can point out the differences between the powerful (big corporations) and the marginalized (book stores).

The author here talks of when he visited the record shop, where he discovered the documents, and the records were kept for a long time, and no one used them until the records had expired. Nowadays, people tend to stream music from the Internet or upload music applications in the form of Spotify, Soundcloud or YouTube instead of going to a music store to waste time collecting a CD. But the music record store is an art, and some people are using it. Krukovsky reported that he found a lot of information.

I believe what Krukowski means when he asserts to “the marginal-the rejected-the repressed” is that the power of marginalization comes from the people entirely.  Over time humans grasp on to something that will last for now but forget it later. By following this logic, he stating that their are also contradictions to his ideal idea of marginalization. He explains this at the very beginning of the episode in simple words, “even yesterday’s hits end up in the dollar bin eventually.” What we might consider marginal, changes over time and whatever catches on will have an effect.

At the beginning of the “Power” episode, Damon Krukowski asserts, “the marginal-the rejected-the repressed-is whatever the powerful have decided is of no use at the moment.” He goes on to ask, “But might it [the marginal-the rejected-the repressed] not be a key to alternate approaches-to art, to society-to power itself?” (“Marginalized” is an adjective that describes a person, group, or concept that is treated as insignificant or peripheral.)  What is he trying to get at with this question? How does music indicate the differences between the powerful and the marginalized?