In the New World with its blend of African and European culture,  there is a “displaced” beat. It is not just 1 and 3 like European or 2 and 4 from African, it’s displaced, or mixed. This beat is often called a swing/tango beat. It shows up in current songs as a habenera beat. Music written by white people is definitely faster beat than compared to the African culture. Never really thought about that until today. O’Malley brought up an example in class that I have seen before. If you’re walking the streets of Washington D.C., you sometimes see people with paint buckets on the street. They use these paint buckets as drums and the beat they use is the same as go go music, or the displaced beat.  Music is opaque, or formal. Someone like me, does not understand the analyzing of the song or really thinks about it. I just say something like “oh yeah i like the beat.” Really digging deep into music I still can’t grasp my head around doing. Hopefully by the end of this semester after taking this class that will change.