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Music and Radio
Commercial Success
Early recording companies evolved over time, buying up smaller labels and morphing into 4 music conglomerates that dominate the industry. Small, independent companies have a hard time competing with these marketing mammoths. However, indies find their own place in filling niche markets and adapting quickly to new music interests.
Since the hit to physical CDs that happened with the emergence of MP3 downloads, recording companies have been looking for new ways to make income.
Music producers initial losses over sheet music sales morphed into large recording companies who specialized in producing a lot of music fast for radio's quickly changing audience tastes.
Radio made possible the runaway commercial success of famous pop stars like Jonny Cash, Taylor Swift, and Britney Spears.
Some independent artists have found their own success through self promotion on the internet. Some of these are then eventually bought out by one of the large recording companies.
Trending Now
Radio is now offered not only in AM and FM, but in satellite format as well as HD radio and streamed online. This creates many options for a variety of tastes and preferences.
Easier than online streaming, podcasts offer downloads of a single show for the audience to consume at their leisure and convenience. The days of scheduling your life around a radio show coming on in the evening are long gone.
MP3 downloads and the internet have vastly changed how music is offered. Recording labels, artists, and audiences are renegotiating how music is bought and sold and who gets what cut.
Music artists using the internet to reach an audience directly have experience with practices like offering a new recording for free, in several successful scenarios, propelling that song to the top of the charts. Music artists who have capitalized on this form of promotion then make money through selling CDs and promotional products, and through live concerts where they are easily able to fill seats.
Impact on Culture
Race
The new music popularized by black music artists such as Muddy Waters, was popular with white teens. But large recording companies often hijacked popular song titles and recorded them with their own white singers. With their superior marketing and connections, the white recordings surpassed the originals on the market, unfairly to the original artists.
Some black music groups such as Motown, became popular in the mainstream market. Black music artists eventually became socially acceptable in mainstream.
During the Great Migration from 1915 - 1960, blacks migrated to northern cities like Chicago from the South, bringing the "blues" with them. These sounds morphed into new forms of music like jazz and soul, infused with urban influence.
Singers like Elvis Presley combined sounds of jazz and blues from black artists with country and gospel, paving the way for rock music and the multitude of genres that later emerged, including punk rock, hip hop, and rap.
Spanish-language radio is popular today, increasing racial diversity on the air.
Sexuality
Pop music heroes like Michael Jackson, Boy George, and Prince popularized androgynous performances and paved the way for looser views of gender
Though often criticized by those who believe it harmful to young people and a healthy society, rock, rap, and hip hop music today continues to specialize in sexually provocative lyrics or lyrics dealing with other controversial topics like violence or politics. Sexualized movement often a part of modern music, and a much looser atmosphere prevails.
"Rock and Roll" a slang term for sex. Groups like the Rolling Stones considered scandalous for sexual lyrics and body movements. Elvis Presley at first filmed only from the waist up for his gyrating body motions. However, teens loved these sexual heroes, screaming and applauding.
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Origins and History
Earliest recorded music was produced by tin foil wrapped around a cylinder, called a phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison.
Record players gave way to cassette tapes, where music artist could experiment with recording on separate tracks and then combining sounds.
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Gramophone played flat discs, eventually eating into sheet music profits
CDs gave way to MP3 players and downloads, which carried the benefits of being able to easily create individualized playlists, of being easily carried in a pocket or purse, not prone to scratch damage, and of not needing to buy an entire album to get one song that you liked.
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