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Music Online

The issue of the means through which it can be allowed for music online to exist, and the legality and commercial nature of these programs, has proven to be highly contentious in the era of the widespread availability of online services. The music industry has long based its business model on technology which was difficult … Continue reading

New and Current Music

In the digital age the means through which music fans and casual enthusiasts can be apprised of ongoing developments in the current music scene have greatly increased in availability and ease of use, with new artists and record labels ascending quickly into the forefront of new music in large part due to the quick methods … Continue reading

Musical Notes

Though the notion of music notes may seem like an integral, necessary part of any system for creating and performing music, it is less intuitive than the casual, non musically inclined listener might suppose, being more a part of the history of how the modern world has quantified and systematized various aspects of native human … Continue reading

Free Music Downloads

Like most of the other segments of the commercial media landscape, the record industry based its financial model for most of the 20th century on the hierarchical nature of its system for allowing access to products. Vinyl-based technology, in particular, facilitated the ability of the record industry to restrict its products from being freely reproduced … Continue reading

Types of Music

Though in a certain sense music might be thought of as one of the purely entertainment-providing forms of art, essentially direct and sensory in its appeal to listeners, as opposed to an artwork with essential visual or narrative elements, the way in which music is understood and quantified by formal systems of academic analysis and … Continue reading

Music on You Tube

The issue of music on youtube that can thus be easily accessed with access to a basic Internet browser has exercised the music industry and its artists as a major threat to their ability to control and profit from the dissemination of their songs. In return, advocates for the broad body of legal doctrines governing … Continue reading

Music Cds

In the history of the modern popular music industry, a recurrent phenomenon has appeared in the form of the business’s need to adapt to new delivery mechanisms for the distribution of albums and songs to consumers, which later is occasioned by some measure of resistance and reluctance on the part of the industry’s business leaders. … Continue reading

Sheet Music

Though popular music has always been a component of human culture, the rise of a commercial, large-scale and hugely profitable industry that specializes in bringing songs to a general public is a relatively recent development tied to such trends as the development of commercially available recording technology. Before that was achieved, however, the essential key … Continue reading

Music Videos

Music videos have been a widely used component of the record industry since the 1980s and the creation of MTV, which afforded for the first time a ready-to-use delivery system for the films that bands and artists might create to promote their work. Since then a well-executed or memorably conceived music video has been shown … Continue reading

Download Music

From neighborhood record shops that sold vinyl LPs, to mall outlets and chain stores that offered CDs, the means of distribution that have been used by the music industry have often undergone dramatic shifts, with wide reaching implications for music industry labels, artists, and fans. One phenomenon that has been appeared time and again in … Continue reading