Music and Popular Culture, Pt. 1

Music

• How often do you listen to music?
• Why?

Music is by far the most influential aspect of popular culture

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• When scientists realized that working with electricity, sounds could be recorded then played back, this became a very popular way to entertain ourselves

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• Vinyl records were the first mass-produced way of listening to music
• Needle follows grooves from outside edge to center
• Two-sides gave more content

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• Magnetic tape cassettes came along in the 1960s
• 8-tracks briefly in late 1960s-early 1980s

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• Compact discs emerged with digital technology
• Read from center to outside edge (opposite vinyl records)

Analog v. digital

• Top wave tries to approximate bottom sound wave (using 1s and 0s)
• Bottom is a natural sound wave
• The bottom allows more frequencies than the top; thus, there is a difference between each

critical thinking question

• What is your go-to genre(s)?
• Why these in particular?

critical thinking question

• Why is music the most influential aspect of popular culture?
• What do you think?

questions? Music and Popular Culture, Pt. 1