MUSIC 2II3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chauvinism, Race Record, Phonograph Cylinder
30 Sep 2016
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Phonograph vs gramophone: like hd vs blue ray; like android vs apple (but essentially the same thing) Comes up with the first recording device. Doesn"t give birth to the recording industry. Music sounded better live than if you were to record it and replay it using this machine. It was a business machine (according to edison) Can play a wax cylinder 5-6 times before it became damaged and unplayable. Cultural inertia: hadn"t occurred to anyone that you could have a machine that could play music for you. Sheet music still by far the wide and share of the music industry. If you weren"t part of tpa, weren"t within people"s frame of reference, so weren"t recorded on records. Needed to focus on areas with urban centres for sales (essentially areas where middle class people lived) Jan 1922 28 stations/ december 1922 570 stations. Network radio begins to change patterns of consumption from regional to national.
