MIAP-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eddie Van Halen, Art Rock, Country Music
Document Summary
Begins with a downturn in the music industry (from 5. 1 billion peak in 1978 down to 4. 6 billion in. Reliance on a small number of multi platinum artists to create profits became more pronounced in the 1980s. In 1984 sales of prerecorded cassettes first surpassed those of vinyl discs. Five-inch compact disc introduced and by 1988 sales of cds surpassed those of vinyl discs. Digital technology also spawned new and more affordable devices for producing and manipulating sound. Record labels became sub-departments of huge transnational corporations. Further fragmentation of the marketplace for popular music and the creation of dozens of new musical genres. Country music becomes the bestselling genre in the us with rock-and-pop influenced country superstars. Deregulation of the entertainment industry led to an explosion in the growth of cable television. Original critics of the exclusionary practices of album oriented rock radio. Mammoth success of michael jackson"s thriller forced a change in mtv"s essentially all-white rock music format.
