TRF 235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Spotify, Warner Music Group, Sitaonair
7 Mar 2018
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Like many other industries, the recording industry has been impacted strongly by digital technologies, but the industry remains vocal in its claims of the devastating effects of piracy. The rise of records: during the last century people"s experiences with music shifted from performance to consumption, from playing instruments to listening to recordings. (272-273, three themes emerge in the history of sound recording, 1. Sound (or audio) recordings did not arrive as a result of one inventor"s grand change. (273: 2. Audio recording as a medium of communication developed as a result of social, legal responses to technology during different historical periods. (273: 3. The recording industry developed and changed as a result of struggles to control audio recordings and how they reach an audience. (276) An overview of the modern recording industry: ownership is international: the major players are the largest media conglomerates operating globally. (277-278) The three largest recording companies are universal music.
