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1. After reading Chapter 4, review the Examining Ethics The Music Industry’s Day of Reckoning section and discuss the issues regarding gender equility in regards to the music industry?
2. How did the music industry attempt to curb illegal downloading and file-sharing?
3. How did sound recording survive the advent of radio? What moral and cultural boundaries were blurred by rock and roll in the 1950s?
4. What moral and cultural boundaries were blurred by rock and roll in the 1950s?
5. Why did punk rock and hip-hop emerge as significant musical forms in the late 1970s and 1980s? What do their developments have in common, and how are they different.

THE MEDIUM OF SOUND RECORDING has had an immense impact on our culture. The music that helps shape our identities and comforts us during the transition from childhood to adulthood resonates throughout our lives. In the course of its history, popular music has also been banned by parents, school officials, and even governments under the guise of protecting young people from corrupting influences. As far back as the late eighteenth century, authorities in Europe, thinking that it was immoral for young people to dance close together, outlawed waltz music as “savagery.” Popular music from the jazz age to today has also added its own chapters to the age-old musical battle between generations. In this chapter, we will place the impact of popular music in context.

As you consider these topics, think about your own relationship with popular music and sound recordings. Who was your first favorite group or singer? How old were you, and what was important to you about this music? How has the way you listen to music changed in the past five years?

? Learning Objectives

• Investigate the origins of recording’s technological “hardware,” from Thomas Edison’s early phonograph to Emile Berliner’s invention of the flat disk record and the development of audiotape, compact discs, and MP3s
• Study radio’s early threat to sound recording and the subsequent alliance between the two media when television arrived in the 1950s
• Explore the impact of the Internet on music, including the effects of online piracy and how the industry is adapting to the era of convergence with new models for distributing and promoting music, moving from downloads to streaming
• Examine the content and culture of the music industry, focusing on the predominant role of rock music and its extraordinary impact on mass media forms and a diverse array of cultures, both American and international
• Explore the economic and democratic issues facing the recording industry