Chapter 4 Flashcards
Who conducted the first experiments with sound recording?
Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville
What is the word phonograph derived from?
The greek terms for sound and writing
Thomas Edison
more than an inventor he was also able to envision the practical uses of his inventions and way to market them.
Magnetic tape sound recording
developed as early as 1929 but didn’t catch on right away because the first machines were bulky reel to reel devices
Digital recording
translates sound waves into binary on-off pulses and stores that info as numerical code
When did CDs hit the market?
1983
The MP3 file format
- developed in 1992
- enables digital recording to be compressed into smaller more manageable files.
In the language of the music industry…
we are shifting from ownership of music to access music
In 1924 why did record sales drop to only half of what they had been the previous year?
Because radio had arrived as a competing mass medium. This produced free entertainment and was not part of the recording industry
What was a cultural storm in the mid- 1950s?
rock-and-roll
Blues-based urban black music began to be marked under the name…
Rhythm and blues or R&B
Rock and roll muddied the waters by blurring the lines between
- High and Low Culture
- Masculinity and Femininity
- Country and City
- North and South
- Sacred and Secular
White rock & roll bands like the Beatles and The Rolling Stones established its career by
covering R&B classics
The Vietnam War brought..
social concerns into the music of the 60s and early 70s
Punk Rock
- rose in the late 1970s
- challenged the orthodoxy and commercialism or the record business
