MUS 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Federal Communications Commission, Country Music, Blue Network
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The history of records: 1877: cylinder records invented by thomas edison, 1880s: cylinders improve; north american recording company established; d. c. franchise columbia. Phonograph co: 1888: emile berliner invents disc recording, 1901: berliner hires eldridge johnson to manufacture gramophones; established the victor talking. Copyright act of 1909: added a royalty of sh. 02 for every record, cylinder, and piano roll manufactured, pre-existing royalties from performance for pro t . American society of composers, authors, and publishers (ascap: 1914: formed to recover royalties from performances of copyrighted music, sold licenses covering its catalogue of songs to venues of live performance, very few african americans were permitted to join. York to kansas city: 1926: red network = opera; blue network = more popular music, 1927: columbia broadcasting co. (cbs) was established with the help of nancial support from la paling cigars (william s. paley) The musical stream: piece: artistic system, product: economic entity (sheet music, records, piano rolls, propaganda: social component.
