MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Music Industry, Ralph Peer, Radio Record
14 Dec 2017
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Majority based on lecture material (~5-6 based on reading sections specified on the study guide: anything said in class is testable material (dates included, always only one right answer. Technology opened up spaces for music that was on the edge. When he invented this, he was not thinking about music. It could also be used to record important speeches in history. The sound quality was not good enough. Wax cylinders were very fragile, you could only play it 7-8 times before the act of playing it wore out the grooves and you could no longer make out what the audio was. It also simply hadn"t occurred to anyone to record music. Everyone knew how to make and listen to music (play it yourself, or sit in a room and listen to someone else play it- that"s how humans had been doing it for forever) 1895-1912 transition from cylinder to disks: quality is much better.
