1999 in music

downloads. Threatening the survival of the music industry and introducing a unique set of challenges for the industry to overcome. To remain relevant in the new global market of digital music online, the music industry would have to evolve and change with the introduction of each new facet technology had to offer. The introduction of digitally compressed music files, so easily attainable for a small fee or downloaded legally (pirated) for free, made the music industry reevaluate how to make a profit

Spongebob Squarepants is a cartoon made in 1999 created by Stephen Hillenburg. Even Though it was created more than a decade ago it is still Nickelodeon’s most successful show ever made and is one of the most popular cartoons to date. Spongebob Squarepants centers around Spongebob, a walking talking sponge, and his misadventures in his hometown Bikini Bottom. The characters consist of mainly sea-creatures such as, Spongebob’s best friend, Patrick Star, his neighbor Squidward Tentacles, his boss,Mr

Pte., Ltd. operates as an online and mobile music company in South East Asia, Australia, Hong Kong, India, and the People’s Republic of China. The company operates online and mobile music retail stores. It offers downloadable music and videos, back-end technology, digital rights clearances, and acquisition of licenses from music publishers and recording companies. The company’s catalogue includes various tracks and mobile music derivatives. Its online music stores are distributed through soundbuzz.com

Music is an ancient and universal practice regarded as a form of expression and emotional communication (Levitin & Tirovolas, 2009). It is therefore assumed a degree of musicianship is biologically guaranteed in humans; we are likely to either actively participate in the production of music or passively listen to it (Wilson, 1987). Music psychology aims to explain musical behaviour through the understanding of various cognitive processes including perception, performance and memory (Tan, Pfordresher

Napster was developed by a Northeastern university student named Shawn Fanning and launched in 1999. Its development made peer-to peer (P2P) sharing of MP3 files easy and accessible to the masses. Fanning’s development caused a burst in the popularity of music - file sharing. It became so popular, that almost overnight millions of people were downloading and uploading files. Napster’s system allowed music files from one users hard drive to be copied by another Napster users. Napster users would use

The Mozart Effect is a study that shows listening to classical music can have positive effects on learning and attitude. This occurrence is called the Mozart Effect, and it has been proven in experiments by many scientists. This research has caused much controversy between believers and nonbelievers, because The Mozart Effect is said to enhance the brain and reasoning; it is also used to reduce stress, depression, or anxiety; it induces relaxation or sleep; and the Mozart Effect activates the body

fashions, people, music, and issues that defined pop culture in the 1960?s and its influence on pop culture in the 1990?s.      In the 1960?s, society was changing by the minute and fashion was ?anything goes?. In the early sixties, Jackie Kennedy

Background Music Mediate the Irrelevant Sound Effect? NICK PERHAM* and JOANNE VIZARD School of Psychology, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, Cardiff, UK Summary: Research suggests that listening to background music prior to task performance increases cognitive processes, such as attention and memory, through the mechanism of increasing arousal and positive mood. However, music preference has not been explored with regard to a more common and realistic scenario of concurrent music and cognition

salsa”, and most famously as El Ray - the King - of Latin Music. His Latin identity is often emphasized in a way that is somewhat unusual for Jazz musicians. Indeed, Ella Fitzgerald, or more recently, Diana Krall, do not have their cultural backgrounds so heavily stressed. Perhaps the emphasis on culture stems from the fact that Puente is Latin Music’s most prominent Jazz musician. “Perhaps it stems from more complex issues of nationalism and music culture, as Steven Loza suggests in his fascinating study

Before the conception of the Internet, music was sold wholly as a physical product. The gramophone record commonly known as ‘Vinyl’ dominated all music sales up until the 1990s. Vinyl was sold as EPs (Singles or Extended play) and LPs (Albums – Long play). In the 1980s the Compact Cassette exploded in popularity, invented by Philips in 1962 the compact cassette had been around with little success. In the 1980s there was a massive surge of high fidelity portable cassette players being sold, most notably