Transcript RecordedMusic

Recorded Music
Powerful
And Controversial
Timeline
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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
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
medium’s history) help growth
• Jazz considered to be corrupting youth
• 1925 electric phonograph replaces hand
crank
Timeline
• 1927 jukebox era begins
• Again Depression stops an industry
• Radio didn’t help/free music (sound
familiar?)
• Big Bands
• 1940s Frank Sinatra/pop music
• 1950s Rock n Roll/Elvis Presley/Sun
Records
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
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
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?)
Timeline
• 1988 Compact Disc sales overtake LP
sales
• 1990s alternative grunge/Seattle/Nirvana
• Gangsta rap/TuPac’s murder
• 1999 MP3 hurts sales (remember radio in
the Depression?)
• 2000 + music conglomerates form
Some Paranoid
Terms
• Subliminal embeds: Kill! Kill! Kill!
• Backmasking: Satan! Oh sweet Satan!
• Lyrics that corrupt our youth (again?)
Future?
• What do you think?
• MP3?
• On-line radio?
• Satellites?