...80's Music vs. New aged Music Chelsey Stafford COM/170 January 10, 2013 Tameka Winston In today's society our music comes from a different era than it was in the 80's. The genre and style of the generation will follow. Music comes from the Ancient Greek muses, who were the nine goddesses of art and science. Music actually began around 500 B.C. when Pythagoras experimented with acoustics and how math related to tones formed from plucking strings. The main form of music during the middle Ages was the Gregorian chant, named for Pope Gregory I. This music was used in the Catholic Churches to enhance the services. It consisted of a sacred Latin text sung by monks without instrumentation. The chant is sung in a monophonic texture, which means there is only one line of music. It has a free-flowing rhythm with little or no set beat. The chants were originally all passed through oral tradition, but the chants became so numerous that the monks began to notate them. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, about the 12th and 13th centuries, music began to move outside of the church. French nobles called troubadours and trouveres were among the first to have written secular songs. Music of this time was contained among the nobility, with court minstrels performing for them. There were also wandering minstrels who would perform music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares. These people were among the lowest social class, along with prostitutes and slaves, but...
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...Edison in 1877. Its first name was the phonograph. The first words ever recorded were “Mary had a little lamb”. The first record was made of paraffin paper and a embossing point to record sound. Using a metal cylinder with tin foil wrapped around it to produce sound. Later vinyl replaced the paper and a needle or stylus was also adapted to fit into the groove of the record. In 1963 William Powell Lear invented and patented the 8-track tape and its corresponding player. Then it was introduced to the public in 1966 when the Ford Motor Company introduced as the cutting-edge automotive accessory for the Ford Mustang (Techtarget.com). 8-tracks began to quickly replace the LP’s due to their portability and they would not warp or skip. During the 60’s the compact cassette was introduced to the public, it was not so much of a music playback system instead; it was used for personal recording and as dictation machine. Then during the 70’s cassettes became very popular when record industries such as Mercury saw the growing potential for their businesses. Later in the 80’s with the invention of the Sony Walkman portable player, and boom boxes; cassettes were the most popular formats to playback music. In the 70’s a music lover frustrated that vinyl records were easily damaged James T. Russell began developing a method to record music onto a photosensitive platter that would be read by a laser (ehow.com). But it was not until 1984 that CD’s were introduced to the public when Sony...
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...WINTER 2015 5. Midterm Paper The paper is to be completed by Week 6 (Wednesday, February 11 at 11:59 PM). You will write a research-driven paper on an independent entertainment company outside of the major entertainment companies discussed in class. You need to have your choice of company approved by the instructor prior to writing the paper by Week 2. Please submit your company to the TA who will compile a list. Some non-traditional entertainment companies you may want to consider: Twitter, Relativity, Lionsgate, AMC, Starz, DreamWorks Animation, MRC, Legendary, MGM, a major MCN (Awesomeness TV, Fullscreen, Machinima, Maker), WME, Scooter Braun Projects, or another professor approved independent media company. Topics should include Historical Background, Principals Involved, Content, Business Models and Revenue Structure. This is your opportunity to write about a company you’re passionate about, other than the major media companies. The paper will be 5 to 7 pages (double-spaced, 12 font, 1” margins) plus notes/bibliography. Midterm paper is due Wednesday, February 11, 2015, no later than 11:59 pm on Turnitin. 6. Final Paper: Now that you have learned the landscape of the current media & entertainment industries, for your final paper you will be asked to predict how the market will evolve in the medium term (3-5 years) and discuss Disruption, Development, Integration, new business models, and what the structural movements could be in the value chain. Your paper should present a clear...
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...Home Search Essays FAQs Tools Lost Essay? Contact Essay Color Key Free Essays Unrated Essays Better Essays Stronger Essays Powerful Essays Term Papers Research Papers Privacy Our Guarantee Popular Essays Excellent Essays Free Essays A-F Free Essays G-L Free Essays M-Q Free Essays R-Z Essay Topics Plagiarism Donate a Paper Michael Jackson Tweet Rate This Paper: Length: 949 words (2.7 double-spaced pages) Rating: Red (FREE) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Praising the King of Pop Michael Jackson Introduction: Perhaps no one has received this title in history “the king of pop”, now a days many artist’s have arisen and have performed but not as the king of pop known worldwide and in history, has dominated the world of pop as Michael Jackson. Born on August 29, 1958 to a strict working class family in Gary, Indiana. Michael Jackson has gone through personal scandal, family squabbles and numerous career quakes but Michael Joseph Jackson remains one of the planet's best known figures. Jackson has spent almost his entire life as a public performer. He was the founder member of the Jackson Five at the age of four, soon becoming their lead vocalist and frontman. This implies Jackson has started his career at a very early age to gradually become one good public personality and famous. For this and for other reasons...
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...African-American street culture in New York City during the 1970s (Watkins, 2001), but the art has expanded to become a multi-billion dollar industry (Atkinson & Halliday, 2003), mostly due to the success of rap music, the most widely publicized and marketed aspect. Media such as television and magazines are responsible for hip-hop’s global recognition today, allowing everyone from the United States to Germany and Korea to embrace the culture (Bennett, 1999). Hip-hop culture has made an enormous transition from its beginning stages to its current state. Early hip-hop reduced inner-city gang violence, as aspects such as the break dancing and rapping acted as positive outlets for at-risk youth, but the emergence of “gangsta” and commercial rap during the 1990s severely lessened the emphasis on non-violence (Watkins, 2001). Today, media associate hip-hop culture with drugs, sex, and violence (Yousman, 2003). This research paper will analyze advertisements in hip-hop magazines, with the aim of discovering how women are depicted. Specifically, this paper will examine how the majority of advertisements within three major hip-hop magazines in the United States depict women in a manner that both reinforces male dominance in American society and depicts women as sexual objects. This paper will also explain and demonstrate how the media images are functioning according to Professor George Gerbner’s cultivation theory. Several scholarly sources deal with hip-hop culture and gender biases,...
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...Research Memo Date: October 16, 2013 To: Prof. Hastings From: Riki Kotaka Subject: How do music companies address the issue the music sales has been declining? Introduction Music is essential for our lives, however it is difficult for those who get involved with music industry to make a profit. Music industry has been shrinking since 1999 when Napster, pioneering music file share service, was founded [1 McCormick]. In 1990’s when the music sales were at the peak, the total global music revenue was around $30 billion, but the one in 2012 was only $16.5 billion [2 Pfanner]. I did summer internship at Sony Music Entertainment in Tokyo for a month. I’ve participated in some meetings to consider marketing plans for musicians. One main reason of the sales declination is an illegal downloading. Although laws prohibit illegal downloading, there are still massive illegal downloading websites on the Internet. However, global music sales in 2012 increased for the first time since 1999, and the number of songs downloaded illegally was declined to 210 million in comparison to 1.2 billion in 2008. [3 Sherwin] It seems that music companies finally found some efficient ideas to overcome illegal downloaders. Do music companies actually increase their profits? And how did music companies start adjusting the situation? The purpose of the research paper is to figure out the main reasons why music sales finally increased, any differences to market music products and if the situation...
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...the videos on youtube. The media plays an important part in the lives of the adolescent.The media enables the teens to learn different communication skills, be creative and get peer support (Spengler, Mess&Woll, 2015). However, statistics indicate that a good number of the youths do not use the media in a productive way. This paper discusses the need for the parents to control their teens’ media use.The media if full of sexual content, the abuse of drugs and violent content, which can be harmful to an adolescent. Although the sexual content in the press is detrimental for any age group, the adolescents are the most vulnerable. Researchers have written about the prevalence of the sexual content in the media and the effect it has to the audience. The adolescents are susceptible because they are at a developmental period when sexual behaviors, sexual attitudes, and gender roles are developing(Walther, Hanewinkel& Morgenstern, 2014).Analyses of broadcast media show that an average adolescent views 143 incidences of sexual behavior weekly.Also, almost 80% of the movies these young children are watching are full of sexual content. The type of music videos they watch has around 60 percent portray of sexual impulses...
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...Business Research Methods (2014) Decreasing number of box office hits per year in Telugu film industry (Tollywood) - analysis and recommendations Business Research Methods Submitted to Dr Arun Abraham Elias Victoria Management School Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand Submitted by M Rohit PGP/17/151 – Section C Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode India M Rohit (PGP/17/151) Page 1 Business Research Methods (2014) Abstract This paper talks about the emergence of Telugu films and subsequent growth and development of Telugu film industry (Tollywood). Indian film industry on a whole is facing serious issue in the decrease in number of hits per year. An attempt has been made to study this trend in Tollywood. Entertainment industry is a major source of income in the Indian GDP. Hence this topic of research has been chosen. The industry has seen transformation from Puranas to mass folklore to technological breakthroughs in the form of colour films and many more innovations. Tollywood holds a special place in Indian film industry in terms of quality of films, number of films released, box office collections and cultural and political impacts on India. This paper approaches the industry with behaviour over time analysis and then identifies various stakeholders involved in this complex network. The paper gives a brief idea of the effects of various parties on the industry. An attempt has been made to address various issues relating to technology,...
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...Jacob Kleintz FYWT Christa DiMarco Research Paper A Culture of Rejection Graphic designer David Carson reflected the grunge culture of the 1990’s through his design of the first issue of the music magazine, Raygun which was published November of 1992. Grunge itself, has its roots in the new music that was emerging as America entered the 90’s. Much of the music shows a disenchantment with society and a sense of entrapment. In 1992, music critic Simon Reynolds said about teenagers in the 90’s, “…there’s a feeling of burnout in the culture at large. Kids are depressed about the future.” By the early 1990's a majority of young adults found the pop music of the time had become too dull and boring. Due to this fact teens turned to a more alternative sound. They found this sound to be produced by college radio and small time record label companies. (Benner). By the start of the 90’s grunge was not only moving to new areas but also began making their own music. Grunge musicians rejected expensive, highly staged performances; most would not use pyrotechnics or other complicated lighting and visual effects during their shows. Grunge ironically arose from a complete rejection of culture (Berman). Carson's style of typography experimentation influenced the development of the deconstructed style of design and a whole new era of designers. The experiments by Carson and other Ray Gun designers were chaotic, abstract and distinctive, but sometimes illegible. The magazine's radical subject...
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...from the European Renaissance to the contemporary period. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Required Resources Sayre, H. M. (2012). The humanities: Culture, continuity and change, Volume 2 (2nd ed.). (2011 Custom Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education. Supplemental Resources Harmon, D. E. (2002). Explorers of the South Pacific: A thousand years of exploration, from Polynesians to Captain Cook and beyond. Broomall, PA: Mason Crest Publishers. McKenzie, L. (2000). Non-western art: A brief guide (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Tuchman, B. W. (1996).The proud tower: A portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. Ward, G. C., & Burns, K. (2002). Jazz: A history of America’s music. New York, NY: Knopf. Doubleday Publishing Group. COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES 1. Explain how key social, cultural, and artistic contributions contribute to historical changes. 2. Explain the importance of situating a society’s cultural and artistic expressions within a historical context. 3. Examine the influences of intellectual, religious, political, and socio-economic forces on social, cultural, and artistic expressions. 4. Identify and describe key artistic styles in the visual arts of world cultures from the Renaissance to the contemporary period. 5. Identify and describe key literary works, styles, and writers of world cultures from the Renaissance to the contemporary period. 6. Identify and describe key...
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...Zachary Stanford Soc 100 Sociological Autobiography Paper I was born on May 16th 1989. There was a lot of change and progression taking place in America around the time of my birth. I was born and raised in a small town in eastern Tennessee. Growing up in a larger than average family consisting of 3 brothers and 1 sister times at home could get very hectic! I lived a very middle class lifestyle as a result of both my parents working 40 plus hours weekly. This was something that was quite unusual coming from a small southern town. I grew up in a place where woman working a full time position to support their family was unheard of. In the south during this time, it was assumed that the male of the household would be the bread winner or provider in each household. The women would play a very important role in maintaining a stable home life. To promote a stable living during this time, a positive economy was a must. The year that I was born just so happened to be an election year and the country was in the heart of a changing time especially due to a new decade approaching and American’s wanting change. George H. W. Bush was inaugurated on January 20, 1989, succeeding Ronald Reagan. He entered office at a period of change in the world; the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Soviet Union came early in his presidency. He ordered military operations in Panama and the Persian Gulf, at one point, Bush was recorded as having a record-high approval rating of 89 percent...
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...Informatics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tele Technological innovations and 3G mobile phone diffusion: Lessons learned from Japan Sheikh Taher Abu * Graduate School of Applied Informatics, University of Hyogo, 1-3-3, Higashi-Kawasaki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0044, Japan a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Technology and innovation become more important determinants of corporate competitiveness, and the telecommunications sector is no exception. A good example is found in the development of the mobile phones. Technological development, embodied in innovative functions developed from the first (1G) to third generation (3G) systems, has played significantly important roles in the growth and upheavals of the Japanese mobile phone market. In addition, development in contents, value-added services which are supplied by related firms formed in the vertical structure, charging systems, handset development; all these have made this small gadget an increasingly important part of daily life. This paper heuristically analyzes the effect of technological innovations and competition policies on the diffusion of 3G mobile phones in Japan. In particular, this paper attempts to identify what are factors to promote the Japanese 3G mobile phone by using panel data analysis. In constructing an estimation model, the number of subscribers to 3G mobile phone services is taken as a dependent variable, while the following three groups of variables (1) GDP and charges, (2) competition...
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...This paper is dedicated to Steve Jobs, one of the greatest inventors we had in modern times. Is iPod Apple’s quiet monopoly Prelude Apple’s iPod a revolutionary portable media player was launched in 2001. Being a striking piece of innovation with no comparable substitutes at that time it had a roaring success in worldwide. Till today, the quarterly sales of iPod worldwide continue to vary between 9 and 10 million ( [ Figure 1 ]). Even after the introduction of Microsoft’s Zune digital media player in 2006 and the existing players produced by companies like Creative, Sony, Samsung etc, the Apple iPod continues to hold a market share of approximately 80%. In this sense, one can be tempted to conclude that iPod can be said to be in a monopoly position because of its well established market dominance. Consequently from our previous deduction we may also conclude that Apple's iTunes Store1 has a monopolistic lock on digital music. The purpose of this paper is to analyze about how much of the above conclusion is valid from an economic point of view. Figure 1 iPod Sales Source: Wikipedia [1] iTunes is a proprietary digital media player computer application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. It can connect to the iTunes Store to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, games etc. Is it truly a Monopoly? Apple’s majority market share in the portable personal media player market and in legal downloads in the...
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...UB28965HMU37521 PROGRAM: BACHELOR IN MUSIC EDUCATION COURSE TITLE: JAZZ MUSIC TITLE OF ASSIGNMENT: ATLANTIC INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY HONOLULU, HAWAII TABLE OF CONTENT CCONTENT PAGE INTRODUCTION……………………………………3-5 JUSTIFICATION…………………………………………5 BODY……………………………………………….…….6-14 REFERENCES………………………………………. …..15-16 INTRODUCTION Musical language started changing throughout Europe by famous composers such as Stravinsky and Schoenberg, alone side a new style of music was developed in America called the jazz music, this new style of music that was developed by instrumentalist and singers, predominantly the black Americans who were performing this new style of music along streets, bawdy houses, dance halls and other southern cities. Jazz music can be defined according to according to oxford student dictionary defined jazz music as a style of music with a strong rhythm, originally of African American. Again, jazz music can be describe as a style of music rooted out of improvisation and features by syncopated rhythm, a constant beat pattern with a distinctive tone color and performance techniques. The term jazz became popular around 1915, though it started as early as 1900 but throughout the early period of jazz existence nothing was written down on paper or notated on jazz music due to the fact that jazz music was mostly dominated by improvisation....
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...War and into our postmodern world. Your course project will culminate in a nine-ten page paper. Your research paper will require a minimum of five academic-scholarly sources. Both in-text citation and an end reference page as specified by the APA style sheet are required. Scrupulous documentation plus high originality, analysis, insight, and fresh applications of ideas are highly prized. Mere reporting, describing, and finding others’ ideas are discouraged, and plagiarism is grounds for failure. Your paper is to be 70–80% original and 20–30% resourced (documented via turnitin.com). Details and milestones follow. Your final grade includes points accumulated for your discussions; proposal; a two-part annotated bibliography; a draft; and a final paper. The following are guidelines to assist you in completing the course successfully. Guidelines for the Proposal (100 points): A proposal offers a detailed and full description of your project (as best you know it at the time of writing) in no more than 2 pages. To succeed, students will need to find at least one source of information related to their topics. Students may work with their professors to identify areas of inquiry or may accept a topic and focus from the list. Understand that you are making a best effort to describe your project early on, but allow yourself to be open to growth and change as you conduct research and focus your intentions. Guidelines...
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