Reaction to Chapter Three
I love how recently this book was written. The intro to the Chapter includes the Apple iPod break-through. I did not realize how much Apple had to go through in order to start iTunes; the company had to convince the top five music-industry corporations as well as other smaller corporations that they could be a safe, self-contained testing ground for an online music distribution business. I also did not realize that iTunes was the first legal music distribution business. I find it amazing how people like Leon Scott de Martinville and Emile Berliner decided to experiment and were some of the founding fathers of the start of sound recording. This technology has simply been a part of my every day life, and I never thought about how these people had to think so far out of the box to invent such a thing.I found it funny that I read about Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters; my friend loves jazz and tries to get me to like it as well. However, no matter how many times I hear these great musicians, jazz will never be something I listen to in my spare time. On the contrary, I enjoyed reading about Chuck Berry because my friend convinced me to go to his free concert a couple of weeks ago. I saw the eighty year-old man perform in a blue sequined shirt and a captains hat. I looked at some of his videos on the Internet, and he is as vivacious as ever. The man is one of a kind. I enjoyed this chapter because I have a wide taste in music. I enjoyed reading about the different genres of music, and the people that made huge steps forward for the music industry.
Vocabulary :
1. audiotape: lightweight magnetized strands of ribbon that make possible sound editing and multiple-track mixing; instrumentals or vocals can be recorded at one location and later mixed onto a master recording in another studio
2. stereo: the recording of two separate channels or tracks of sound
3. digital recording: music recorded and played back by laser beam rather than by needle or magnetic tape
4. analog recording: a recording that is made by capturing the fluctuations of the original sound waves and storing those signals on records or cassettes as a continuous stream or magnetism - analogous to the actual sound
5. compact discs (CDs): playback-only storage discs for music that incorporate pure and very precise digital techniques, thus eliminating noise during recording and editing sessions
6. DVD: digital video disc, a digital storage format that looks like a CD but has a greater capacity, enabling it to handle feature-length films as well as graphics, video, multichannel audio, and interactivity
7. MP3: short for MPEG-1 Layer 3, an advanced type of audio compression that reduces file size, enabling audio to be easily distributed over the Internet and to be digitally transmitted in real time
8. pop music: popular music that appeals to either a wide cross section of the public or to sizable subdivisions within the larger public based on age, region, or ethnic background ; the word pop has also been used as a label to distinguish popular music from classical music
9. jazz: an improvisational and mostly instrumental music form that absorbs and integrates a diverse body of musical styles, including African rhythms, blues, big band, and gospel
10. cover music: songs recorded or performed by musicians who did not originally write or perform the music; in the 1950s, cover music was an attempt by white producers and artists to capitalize on popular songs by blacks
11. rock and roll: music that mixed the vocal and instrumental traditions of popular music; it merged the black influences of urban blues, gospel, and R&B with the white influences of country, folk, and pop vocals
12. blues: originally a kind o black folk music, this music emerged as a distinct category in the early 1900s; it was influenced by African-America spirituals, ballads, and work songs in the rural South, and by urban guitar and vocal solos from the 1930s and 1940s
13. rhythm and blues (R&B): music that merged urban blues with big-band sounds
14. rockabilly: music that mixed bluegrass and country influences with those of black folk music and early amplified blues
15. payola:the unethical (but no always legal) practice of record promoters paying deejays or radio programmers to favor particular songs over others
16. soul music: music that mixes gospel, blues, and urban and southern black styles with slower, more emotional and melancholic lyrics
17: folk music: music performed by untrained musicians and passed down through oral traditions; it encompasses a wide range of music from Appalachian fiddle tunes to the accordion-led zydeco of Louisiana
18: folk-rock: amplified folk music, often featuring politically overt lyrics; influenced by rock and roll
19. punk rock: rock music that challenges the orthodoxy and commercialism of the recording business; it is characterized by loud, unpolished qualities, a jackhammer beat, primal vocal screams, crude aggression, and defiant or comic lyrics
21. alternative rock: nonmainstream rock music, which includes many types of experimental music and some forms of punk and grunge
22. hip-hop music: music that combines spoken street dialect with cuts (or samples) from older records and bears the influences of social politics, male boasting, and comic lyrics carried forward from blues, R&B, soul, and rock and roll
23. gangsta rap: a style or rap music that depicts the hardships of urban life and sometimes glorifies the violent styles of street gangs
24. electronica: often referred to as "techno", an underground music genre that developed in the 1990s; it features keyboards, drum machine beats, and music samples often sequences with computers
25. oligopoly: in media economics, an organizational structure in which few firms control most of an industry's production and distribution resources
26. indies: independent music and film production house that work outside industry oligopolies; they often produce less mainstream music and film
27. A&R (artist and repertoire) agents: these talent scouts of the music business discover, develop, and sometimes manage performers
28. piracy: the illegal uploading, downloading, or streaming of copyrighted material, such as music
29. counterfeiting: the unauthorized copying of CDs, cassettes, and other packaging
30. bootlegging: the illegal counterfeiting or pirating of CDs, cassettes, and videos that are produced and/or sold without official permission from the original songwriter, performer, or copyright holder
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