Recorded Music Powerful And Controversial Timeline Sheet musicfirst

Recorded Music Powerful And Controversial

Timeline • • Sheet music/first transmissions in 1800 s Thomas Edison 1877 phonograph Mary Had a Little Lamb/tinfoil Alexander Graham Bell graphophone/wax cylinder • Dictation machines/especially in D. C. • Emile Berliner/gramophone/disk instead of cylinder

Timeline • Enrico Caruso 1902 recorded operas • Columbia Phonograph Company introduces two sided disks in 1905 • 1920 s African Americans (group that always figures prominently in this medium’s history) help growth • Jazz considered to be corrupting youth • 1925 electric phonograph replaces hand crank

Timeline • 1927 jukebox era begins • Again Depression stops an industry • Radio didn’t help/free music (sound familiar? ) • Big Bands • 1940 s Frank Sinatra/pop music • 1950 s Rock n Roll/Elvis Presley/Sun Records

Timeline • 1955 Blackboard Jungle includes Bill Haley and the Comets “Rock Around the Clock” • Song/film cause sensation and are considered to be corrupting youth (again? ) • 1960 s The Beatles/British Invasion • In U. S. you have drug culture/Woodstock bands • Country Western/Grand Ole Opry/Loretta Lynn • And others

Timeline • 1970 s Disco rules/Saturday Night Fever soundtrack becomes phenomenon • Mid 1970 s punk rock in Britain and U. S. • 1981 MTV debuts to small number of markets • Video Killed the Radio Star first video • Pat Benatar first real video star • Then Madonna

Timeline • 1985 US Senate wants records rated and labeled • Parents Music Resource Center PMRC • Led by Tipper Gore • Key lawsuits are filed against musicians and their lyrics influence corrupting children (again? )

Timeline • 1988 Compact Disc sales overtake LP sales • 1990 s alternative grunge/Seattle/Nirvana • Gangsta rap/Tu. Pac’s murder • 1999 MP 3 hurts sales (remember radio in the Depression? ) • 2000 + music conglomerates form

Some Paranoid Terms • Subliminal embeds: Kill! • Backmasking: Satan! Oh sweet Satan! • Lyrics that corrupt our youth (again? )

Future? • What do you think? • MP 3? • On-line radio? • Satellites?