The Blind Industry : Mitchell Rainey

Every adult, over the age of 18, has seen the changes the music industry has gone through since the introduction of the internet, digital downloading, and online streaming. We have heard that Tapes, CDs, MP3s, and the internet were going to destroy the industry. Have they destroyed it yet? According to Ian Morris, Author of the article, "Technology is Destroying the Music Industry, Which is Great for the Next Taylor Swift", music is changing but the only thing the internet is destroying are the record labels. Which he explains as a good thing for the industry. Morris talks about the roles the record label plays and why it 's on the way out. The biggest change in music since the internet was the development of Napster. 2014 marked fifteen years after the rise and fall of this online file sharing platform. The article "15 years After Napster: How the Music Service Changed the Industry", by Alex Suskind, talks about the failed program and why the biggest change in the music industry made record labels scared. So what does this all mean and why should people care? Well for starters when it comes to musicians and record labels, the company makes most of the money, as well as most of the decisions. Music was never meant to be something that was used for money. Music is made enjoyment and should be shared without extensive rules and regulations. Music existed before man and will exist after. It is not something that should be governed by big companies looking to make money. The

During the 18th century, music was used as a social enhancement on the rising middle class who showed interest in intellectual ideals of Enlightenment. The rising middle class were people who would come between the working class and the upper class. Such as craftsman, bankers, and merchants. These select few decided that since they can now afford some of life's  pleasures, that they would spend it on music that aristocrats and nobility would listen to. While on the other hand, during the 19th century, music began to develop a more story base theme with a moral lesson. Such as Ballets and Grand Operas. So basically, during the 18th-19th century, music has evolved from just sound or noise to a elegant and graceful story played through musical notation with different musical instruments while advancing the growth of the middle class.

While the music industry is blaming the decline of music sales on people who download free music- the real blame should be placed on MTV and BET. Yes! MTV and BET have ruined the music business. These two "music" television networks were created as a way for consumers to enhance their music experience. Now, if your turn the channel to MTV or BET, I guarantee you won't see any music videos. As a matter of fact, you probably won't see anything related to music either. Today, reality television, sitcoms, movies, and dramas rule these networks. The days of Total Request Live (MTV), Yo! MTV Raps, Club MTV, 106 & Park (BET), Rap City (BET), and Video Soul (BET), are long gone.

Europe was not the only part of the world that experienced change in music. The United States also began a change in music that drastically improved the way we listen to, compose, and disperse music. Before the 1960s, there was an increase in different types of music that displayed characteristics much different from the nineteenth century and beyond. People began to play with tone, timing, rhythm and much more.

The Music Industry has been a constant in the hearts of fans and the general public for years. During those years, music companies were ran a certain way that may have seemed successful for a while. Everything changed when Independent Record Labels were created. Music was revolutionized when the effects of Independent Record Labels took place, when Atlantic Records was created, and when founders, producers, and artists worked together to create a viable business and music outlet.

The history of making and selling music as an industry is extremely short in comparison to the entire history of music itself. The availability of free music online may have made people take music for granted but has definitely not made it any less appreciated. Even if people aren’t paying for music, they are still taking time to find songs to listen

through major change. Music was viewed as an innocent luxury, and composers had to react

The entertainment industry kept growing for years and as the business grew, the competition also increased. There has also been an increase in the sales of music online. Selling online made it cheaper for customers and as a result many preferred to buy them online rather than going to the stores and buying music. Secondly, there has been an increase in illegal digital downloading; young people tend to download music of various formats which are easily available from the internet. This has lead to

I think we’ve seen this happen time and time again. Artists make a splash and become something big and then they slowly fade away. Some of them just have one big song and that’s all you ever hear from them. I think the reasoning behind this is there unwillingness or inability to change and evolve. I feel like because music is a revolving door and it’s always changing, if you don’t change with it you lose peoples attention. If you’re not getting attention, you’re not selling records and pretty soon you financial are no longer viable. I could list of a multitude of artists that have had some success and then fizzled out. Truthfully, there are probably more of those types then of the types who stick around for a couple decades. The exception, I think, is country artists. Yes, you have those that don’t last a long time, but the majority of them who hit it big continue on to stay in County music for a long time. Perfect examples are Garth Brooks and Willie Nelson. Willie Nelson came onto the scene in the early 1960s.³ He has had numerous hits, made music history and is still making records some 55 years later. Garth Brooks is the same way. Although he hasn’t been at it as long as Willie, he has been around for a long time. I feel like this is due in part to Country music changing the least out of all the other genres of

Music has been evolving since its creation. This evolution of music has led to a vast variety of music that all people can enjoy. Artists who make good music, are praised and revered for their talents, and recently this has led to many aspiring musicians who want to acquire fame and fortune through their music. In the United States music in constantly evolving, and in recent years this evolution of music has sped up to a very fast rate. Music has evolved for many reasons including, improved technology, and change in culture, and a desire to create something new.

Technology is changing the essence of music , technology came to with the advent of recordings. Thomas Edison invented a crude cylinder phonograph in 1877. By the end of the nineteenth century, companies in the United States and England were manufacturing recordings of music.

The music of generations shows the influence and what people are like. For example, when people walk into a used record store you can see all types of different genres. Music from the 80’s, 50’s, etc. can all be found and the people go along with them. You can find a leather jacket, choker, combat boot wearer but also a flower crown, bell bottomed, tye dyed hippie in the same place looking for the same thing. Sometimes those people have more in common than either of them know. That is because music has historical lyrics, political meanings, and emotional support for the people who ask for it or need

The music industry has changed in very quickly in so many ways it almost seems impossible. Thomas Edison recorded the first voice in 1877 and now we listen to hundreds of different types of music on devices that hold more information than the computers that sent the first astronaut to the moon. People have been getting music in tons of ways for the past hundred plus years and when the internet came into the picture, the music industry sky rocketed. People could get their own music out and be heard just by clicking a few measly buttons and using the internet to stream millions of songs with high speed. But even though the internet has helped the music industry by making it easier to distribute, advertise, and produce music, it still has its disadvantages.

I’m sure you’ll all agree when I say that music is changing very fast. It’s either that or we keep changing our tastes in music every five minutes – which is far more probable. Today if someone put on a record from just 10-20 years ago we’d probably think of that music as being incredibly old or very simple. I don’t know about you, but I can’t stand to watch some (if not most) of the early Top of the Pops because the music is so old. We think of this as being old, but in

One can only speculate the future of the music industry. As aforementioned, the music industry is in constant flux, changing shape and adapting to new