Lincoln Records

I walked down the street toward Bob’s Music Store carrying the violin that belonged to my grandfather. Before it was my grandfather’s, it belonged to his father when he came over from Norway. The instrument had some family history. Now that my grandfather has passed on, this was one of the few objects that I had left to remember him by. Ten years before he died, my grandfather went deaf and stopped playing his violin. It sat up on a high shelf until I came along, picked up, and took it home with

any entrepreneur of the late nineties, they took to the internet, and founded Napster. A free website that used file-sharing technology to allow people to get their favorite songs by sharing files over the internet. The website was so successful, record companies began to take notice of their dwindling sales. By December of the same year, Napster was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and basically anyone else who produced music for copyright infringement. Although the

alike, sound alike female artists’ (and music) due to the music industry’s hesitation to invest in brand new talent and break away from societal expectations. Marketing and music go hand in hand. Most artists, including female artists, rely on their record label to provide an avenue for the artist to gain recognition. The primary methods to reach people is through

Irving Berlin first wrote the piece “What’ll I Do?” in 1923. This specific performance is by the Nat King Cole Trio in 1947. Though this song has remained popular to this day, even being used in the hit show Cheers, the height of its popularity came around the time it was written. In the 1920s, the popularity of social dance and jazz was at an all-time high. This song, which was a mix of a ballad and a jazz piece, was a sure hit. Originally written for a Music Box Revue, it was composed in AABA form

Music is an art, an expression, an industry, and most importantly a business. Davis Szatmary, author of “Rockin’ in Time,” states, “[r]ock-and-roll has always been a business” (2014, p. xvi). Music connects to my business major through its relations of marketing, management, and supply chain, or distribution. Without these key components bands, labels, and technology may have never grown to the heights its reached today. The biggest contender in music development, outside of its sound, is the way

than ever to get your music out there (Day 64). The internet can also be very disastrous for the music industry because a large number of the population is pirating music. The piracy of music can lead to many problems to the artists and his or hers record labels (Wingrove 212). The music industry is changing in many ways, from the physical sales to digital sales and streaming; making the internet the number one culprit of revenue loss which results in artists having financial challenges but taking

The Music Industry and the Big Six The music industry is made of companies which produce and sell music. The music industry as we know it was solidified in the mid-twentieth century, where records succeeded sheet music as the primary product in the music business. Record companies were established, but did not last very long until the late 1980s when the “Big Six”, a group of multinational corporations consisting of Sony, MCA, WEA, Polygram, EMI, and BMG controlled most of the market. Initially there

1. Before implementing the technology blackout, I found that I use a lot of my time using some sort of technology. For instance, in a 48-hour time period after keeping a journal of the time that I spent watching television, watching films, listening to music, surfing the internet and using a cell phone I was surprised to find that I spend a total of 5 hours surfing the web in a 48-hour time period. I also found that watching television and films has become something of the past with only watching

Armando Christian Perez, otherwise known as Pitbull, was born in Miami, Florida on January 14, 1981. At a young age his parents divorced and he was raised by his mother until she found out about his drug dealing business. Once his secret was revealed his mother placed him in the foster system and he then grew up with a family in Roswell, Georgia. He went to school at Coral Park High School, where he graduated and made the tough decision to not continue on to college. Pitbull persued his rapping dreams

DIGITAL vs ANALOG RECORDING Digital recording/ reproduction converts an analog sound signal picked up by a microphone to a digital form. The process that allows this is called digitization. This allows the recording to be stored and transmitted by a wider variety of media. Digital recording stores audio as a series of binary numbers. These represent samples of the amplitude of the audio signal at equal time intervals. The sample rate is high enough to convey all sounds that can be heard. Digital