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    Music improvements in 1960s “Life is a progress, not a station,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson. Each decade, changes occur in almost all areas in life, and music is one of the fields that describes better that assessment. Since the 1960s, music has been going through a lot of changes in composition, arrangement, production, and distribution. However, some people are still thinking that music started getting worse since that time(Briggs). But, what if it was a positive change or a progress people had

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     TV's rising popularity affected radio, but not the recording industry.  Ans: F        4. Rock music has roots in several musical genres, including rhythm and blues.  Ans: T        5. The dawn of the '60s brought a new clean­cut breed of rock star, thanks to American  record companies' desires to increase profits.  Ans: T        6. Although some American recording artists were prominent during the 1960s, the music  scene became dominated by the "British Invasion."

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    In the 1960s the government of the United States of America (USA) requested computer scientists to conduct research into building communication via computer networks, (Wikipedia, 2016).This research gave rise to the origins of the internet which is now regarded as a global computer network that provides a variety of information and communication facilities. This global network consists of millions of different types of computers that maybe desktop or mobile, hardwired or wireless and for personal

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    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. Music was indeed

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    The discourse of authenticity in mass music culture has consistently been a recurring topic; from the mid-1960s onwards, the rise of rock n’ roll intensified a strong culture explicitly concerned with the authenticity of musical artists.1 Remaining increasingly valued, a certain popular music approach emerged, privileging anti-commercial, direct relationships between the autonomous act and its audience 2 over manufactured, commoditized acts mediated before cultural consumption. The conflict between

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    The music industry is one of the few industries that have enjoyed complete dominance in their particular segment from their very beginnings all the way up to the late 1990s. Once the internet began to take hold, and become available in every home, the music industry began losing ground in their market segment. Digital downloading through the internet became so popular that record labels began losing money at a significant rate. Their reaction to illegal downloading has been controversial, as well

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    This essay will discuss both the positives and negatives of the Internet and how it has impacted on the music industry. Piracy, distribution and networking are just some of the aspects that have drastically changed the music scene since the arrival of the Internet. Has the Internet changed the music industry for the better or worse? In the early 1960s a computer scientist called J. C. R. Licklider proposed “the concept of a Galactic Network”. Investintech (2009) Licklider could see that having

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