HIST105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Al Hopkins, Emile Berliner, Industrial Revolution
11 Sep 2016
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Part 1 birth of the music industry. Tin pan alley west 28th street between broadway and sixth avenue (nyc) Music & industry are at constant odds. Music has existed since the dawn of time to convey feelings and emotions: music is life music is profound . Tin pan alley: music publishing is what brought on the rise of the american music. American society of american composers (ascap: founded feb 13th 1914, started in tin pan alley, enforced publishing and copywrite laws, organization that represented the elite of the elite, smaller artists were overlooked, known for payola schemes. Development of sound recording technology: 1860 first sound recording, 1878 thomas edison phonograph, emile berliner (1851-1929) german american patents the gramophone 7" wax. Establishment of the record label: early labels: gramophone (1887), edison (1888), victor talking machine (1901), columbia (1887, phonographs were the toy of the late in the late 1880s, become accessible to middle class by early 1900s.
