MUSC 171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Otis Redding, Cole Porter, Copyright Act Of 1909
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Week 2: early american euro and african music. Thomas edison and the cylinder (phonograph)- 1877 i. ii. Alexander graham bell, wax coatings and cylinder i. Replaced the tinfoil with wax (wax coated cylinder) Louis glass, "father of the jukebox," and the "entertainment cylinder" i. ii. Experimented with the flat disc (said it doesn"t have to be a cylinder and came up with the design of engraving sounds onto a zinc disk) Started engraving sound on a wax coated zinc disk in 1887 e. By the first decade of the 20th century the disc was in use by urban and middle class and the cylinder was more popular with the rural, poorer, communities. Have many men recorded and very little women. Rural and urban markets for new recording technologies. The copyright act and ascap: legal matters a. b. c. U. s. 1914- group called ascap (american society of composers, authors, and publishers) i. ii. Performing rights- gets money to the right people.
