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Recorded Music and Radio

  • Printed music
    • sheet music
    • composers
    • Tin Pan Alley
    • Scott Joplin
    • performers
  • acoustic recording and playback
    • phonograph
      • Thomas Edison
      • 1877
    • gramophone
      • Emile Berliner
      • 1895
    • Victrola
      • Victor Talking Machine Company
      • 1906
  • Popular music
    • 1920s
    • Dixieland Jazz
    • Movie showtunes
    • African-American Blues
  • Impact of Radio
    • 1920s–1930s
    • live music on the radio
    • consumers bought fewer records
    • radio listeners gradually bought records
    • growth of Big Band
  • Musical Genres
    • Grand Ole Opry across radio stations in the South
    • country and western
      • gospel
      • blues
      • bluegrass
    • electric blues
    • rhythm and blues
  • Rock ’n’ roll
    • hybridizing
      • blues
      • country
      • western swing
      • rockabilly
    • Bill Haley and the Comets, “Rock Around the Clock”
    • Elvis Presley, “That’s All Right, Mama,” by Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup
  • Recording Industry and Radio
    • promotional device for selling records
    • disc jockeys
    • payola
  • Record Boom
    • advent of magnetic tape, 1947
      • improved fidelity
      • reduced costs
      • facilitated editing
    • new record formats
      • 33-⅓ RPM 12-inch long-playing record
      • 45 RPM 7-inch single
    • longer songs
    • more complex arrangements
  • Segmentation
    • growth of FM radio and record labels, 1970s
    • new formats
      • album-oriented rock
      • Top 40
      • rock oldies
      • heavy metal
      • adult contemporary
      • R&B/urban
      • disco
      • country and western
  • Compact Discs
    • introduced 1982
    • digital audio format and medium
    • harsh and brittle sound
    • surpassed vinyl and cassettes, 1990s
  • Internet
    • retail CD distribution
    • radio stations moved online
      • Real Audio
      • MP3 streaming
    • payment of copyright fees, 2002
    • independent distribution of recordings without record labels acting as gatekeepers
  • Digital Recording
    • music consumers and producers
    • recording on personal computers
    • replacing specialized mixing and effects equipment
    • deprecating recording studios
  • Digital Recording Formats
    • compression
      • MP3
      • AAC
    • lossless recordings
    • digital rights management
      • copy protections
      • Super Audio CD
      • DVD Audio
      • lessens utility
  • Music on the Internet
    • Napster
      • Shawn Fanning, 1999
      • exchange digital music as computer files over the Internet
    • Recording Industry Association of America
      • “stolen” music, not “shared"
      • shut down various sharing sites
    • Apple iTunes, $0.99 songs, 2003
    • subscription music streaming services
    • music in the cloud
    • role of social media
  • Recording Industry
    • talent
    • producers
    • recording studios
    • recording companies
    • record labels
    • distributors
    • promoters
    • retailers
  • Recording Companies
    • Big Three
      • Sony-BMG
      • Universal
      • Warner Music Group
    • all operate boutique labels
    • gatekeepers
      • which albums and songs to promote
      • high “first copy” costs
      • produce music videos
  • Music Distribution
    • disappearance of chain record retailers
    • CDs
      • Walmart
      • Best Buy
      • Target
    • online downloads
      • iTunes
      • Amazon
    • streaming services
  • Music Industry Associations
    • RIAA: recording industry
    • artists organizations
      • ASCAP: American Society of Composers, Artists and Publishers
      • BMI: Broadcast Music Incorporated
      • collect royalties
    • alternatives
      • bootleg recordings
      • Internet file sharing
      • Creative Commons
  • Music Industry Today
    • largely consolidated and controlled by a few giants
    • plagued by copyrights
      • reuse for sampling and mashups
      • distribution over the Internet
    • recording artists are “starved”
    • innovation
      • direct-to-consumer releases
      • Internet radio
  • Radio Technology
    • electromagnetism
      • frequency, measured in Hertz (Hz)
      • amplitude, measured in dB or watts
    • transmission
      • AM: amplitude modulaton
      • FM: frequency modulation
    • new forms
      • HD radio: multicast streams
      • satellite radio: geostationary transmissions
      • Internet radio: packet audio over IP
  • Wireless Telegraph
    • first commercial use of radio
      • Guglielmo Marconi
      • point-to-point communication
      • transmitted Morse Code
    • matured: 1912 Titanic disaster
    • centralized: 1920 RCA patent pool
  • Broadcasting
    • one-to-many
    • Westinghouse
      • Frank Conrad
      • KDKA Pittsburgh
    • explosive growth caused frequency interference
    • Commerce Department issued licenses, 1923
  • Commercial Broadcasting
    • David Sarnoff, “household utility”
      • piano
      • phonograph
    • advertising support
      • AT&T
      • toll broadcasting
      • WEAF, 1922
  • Radio Networks
    • RCA established NBC, 1926
    • Columbia Broadcasting System, 1927
    • radio stations
      • owned and operated
      • affiliated stations
  • Early Radio Programming
    • news
    • comedy
    • variety shows
    • soap operas
    • detective dramas
    • sports
    • suspense
    • action-adventure
    • live music, not recorded
  • Fall of Network Radio
    • competition from television, 1948
    • networks redirected resources to television
    • TV becomes main source of mass entertainment
  • Specialization of Radio
    • national to local focus
    • formats
      • recorded music
      • news and talk
    • playlists of music
    • genre or audience
  • FM Radio
    • emerged in 1960s
      • high-fidelity sound
      • short-range
    • focus on segmented audiences
    • new formats for subcultures
    • advertisers sought subcultures
  • Consolidation
    • centrally produced program formats
    • satellite distribution
    • syndication programming
    • group ownership
    • Clear Channel and “regionalization”
    • elimination of ownership restrictions
      • Telecommunications Act of 1996
      • supergroup owners
      • Clear Channel, now iHeartMedia
  • Radio in Digital Age
    • satellite radio
    • Internet radio
    • podcasting
    • cloud music services
  • Radio Industry
    • horizontal integration
      • consolidated ownership
      • group ownership
    • vertical integration
      • cross-ownership
        • television
        • cable
        • film
  • Noncommercial Radio
    • focus
      • education
      • underappreciated music genres
      • ethnic immigrant music
      • news and public affairs
    • owners
      • universities
      • foundations
      • local nonprofits
      • churches
    • mostly lower-frequency FM stations
  • Radio Formats
    • music formats dominate radio
    • format clock
      • cycle of music
      • advertisements
      • promotions
      • news, traffic, weather reports
    • less rigidly followed than before
    • commercial-free blocks to build listener loyalty
  • Ratings
    • audience research
    • determine reach of desired audience
    • Arbitron, now Neilsen
      • paper diaries
      • report usage of radio stations
    • apps allow for more accurate and detailed ratings
    • ratings can determine new formats
  • Music Genres
    • Country
    • News/Talk/Information
    • Adult Contemporary
    • Contemporary Hit Radio
    • Classic Rock
  • Censorship
    • radio is a scarce resource
    • obscenity
      • not protected by the law
    • indecency
      • sexual or excretory organs or activities

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