MAC 143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Radio Relay League, Hiram Percy Maxim, Wireless Telegraphy

• School: Miami University
• Department: Media and Culture
• Course: MAC 143
• Professor: Elvin Elkins

Document Summary

Music culture and media technology: participatory music culture, passive music culture: Private (when media technology privatizes out experiences) listening with headphones. The cultural policies of popular music: genealogies of popular music. Formalist music analysis: popular music as (sub)cultural expression, mass media crosses traditional barriers. Battles over relationship between mainstream/margins: mainstream strategies. Corporate rationalization v countercultural energy: artist"s tension. Popular music in the digital era: changes in distribution and listening. Transduction: taking raw sound waves and transferring them into electronic signals. Modulation: transmitter sends sounds through modulated radio waves, process of transmitting and sending sound through radio waves, sent out into the ether. Different strengths, constant frequency: fm radio. Key steps in electronic communication: 1840s telegraphy, 1870s telephony, 1890s wireless telegraphy, 1900s wireless telephony. Radio"s entrepreneurial stage: key technological developments: marconi and the wireless telegraph. 2 electrodes that had a gap that would create a spark and send a sound through a radio wave. Company he founded: voice transmission (wireless telephony)