04:189:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thomas Stockham, Shawn Fanning, Answering Machine

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:102
• Professor: Fredrika Thelandersson

Document Summary

First to capture sound but not able to play it back. Phonograph- greek: phono for sound, graph meaning writing. (cid:267)(cid:274)(cid:273)(cid:274): patent: an (cid:324)answering machine(cid:325) - playback tinfoil cylinders (cid:324)speaking telegraph(cid:325) Gramophone - made of zinc (play records) Zinc discs needed no storage boxes, could be stored in a small space. The fall & rise of recorded music (1930s-40s) Radio station owners start paying producers/musicians rights. Cbs records introduces the long-playing record (lp) - 40 min. Lighter, more portable & permitted multi-track mixing and editing. 1950s: radio & recording industry join forces. Rock and roll"s appeal: integrationist and attracted younger audiences + djs (cid:312)payola(cid:313) Censorship: concern that young people are losing moral values. Rock and roll was more low culture. There will be end to the world. Analog recording: the capturing and storage of sound wave fluctuations in the grooves of a record or the continuous magnetic streams of a tape.