Recorded Music

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Recorded Music

• Powerful
• And Controversial

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Timeline

• Sheet music/first transmissions in 1800s
• Thomas Edison 1877 phonograph
• Mary Had a Little Lamb/tinfoil
• Alexander Graham Bell graphophone/wax cylinder
• Dictation machines/especially in D.C.
• Emile Berliner/gramophone/disk instead of
  cylinder

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Timeline

• Enrico Caruso 1902 recorded operas
• Columbia Phonograph Company introduces two sided
  disks in 1905
• 1920s African Americans (group that always
  figures prominently in this mediums history)
  help growth
• Jazz considered to be corrupting youth
• 1925 electric phonograph replaces hand crank

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Timeline

• 1927 jukebox era begins
• Again Depression stops an industry
• Radio didnt help/free music (sound familiar?)
• Big Bands
• 1940s Frank Sinatra/pop music
• 1950s Rock n Roll/Elvis Presley/Sun Records

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Timeline

• 1955 Blackboard Jungle includes Bill Haley and
  the Comets Rock Around the Clock
• Song/film cause sensation and are considered to
  be corrupting youth (again?)
• 1960s The Beatles/British Invasion
• In U.S. you have drug culture/Woodstock bands
• Country Western/Grand Ole Opry/Loretta Lynn
• And others

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Timeline

• 1970s Disco rules/Saturday Night Fever
  soundtrack becomes phenomenon
• Mid 1970s punk rock in Britain and U.S.
• 1981 MTV debuts to small number of markets
• Video Killed the Radio Star first video
• Pat Benatar first real video star
• Then Madonna

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Timeline

• 1985 US Senate wants records rated and labeled
• Parents Music Resource Center PMRC
• Led by Tipper Gore
• Key lawsuits are filed against musicians and
  their lyrics influence corrupting children
  (again?)

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Timeline

• 1988 Compact Disc sales overtake LP sales
• 1990s alternative grunge/Seattle/Nirvana
• Gangsta rap/TuPacs murder
• 1999 MP3 hurts sales (remember radio in the
  Depression?)
• 2000 music conglomerates form

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Some ParanoidTerms

• Subliminal embeds Kill! Kill! Kill!
• Backmasking Satan! Oh sweet Satan!
• Lyrics that corrupt our youth (again?)

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Future?

• What do you think?
• MP3?
• On-line radio?
• Satellites?