Notes about music.
The music Industry.
Sources from AS Media OCR textbook
The music industry can be defined as the organisation of the varies activities associated with performing and recording music and distributing access to those performances around the world. The basis of music production is accessible to everyone with a modicum of talent, the industry is both more ‘open’ than film making and less easily ‘controlled’ than traditional broadcasting television. This has led to a longstanding institutional difference between small ‘independent’ music organisations and a large corporate ‘mainstream’.
The music industry and technology
•The development of the music industry is in extricable linked to the development of technology.
•1980 compact discs technology emerged.
•1988 sales of CD’s become over took.
•1990 recordable CD’s became available
•1997 MP3’s emerged.
•1999 Napster serviced was launched.
•2000 bread band was intro to the UK.
•2001 Apple launched the iPod and iTunes.
Apple operates without looking first at convergence between the music industry, computing , television and tele communications.
Pop music Industry-
•’Pop’ means ‘popular’. Pop music is generally targeted at a young market.
•Pop music is seen as a softer version of rock n roll.
•Pop Music Genre
•An aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideology.
•An emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal ‘artistic’ qualities.
•An emphasis on recording, production, technology and over live performance.
•A tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments.
•Pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance-oriented beats or rhythms.
•Often between 2 and a half and 3 and half minutes in length, generally marketed by a consistent and noticeable rhythmic element.
•Simple traditional structure.
•Melodise and chorus (Love and relationship)
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