Already hearing holiday and Christmas songs everywhere? No doubt Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” is heard in a lot of malls, stores and establishments. It is considered to be one of the Christmas songs in the past two decades that has reached a height of popularity. According to Adam Ragusea, a journalism professor at Mercer University, Mariah Carey’s song is a classic because of the chords, as reported by Vox. Ragusea said there are 13 distinct chords that makes Mariah…
Chapter 15- Rock Traditions and the Business of Change The music industry itself developed and introduced a new idea in selling albums. Starting from the 1970s, with the DIY revolution, to the 1990s, featuring digital recording, prices and accessibility to digital music became cheaper and easier to use. Thus, electronic distribution was the first to revolutionize. Internet sales thrived as compact disks became less of a desire for people to travel to buy; the sales of physical CDs declined…
Many people believe that streaming is a good thing and use streaming services; they are able to listen to music at a cheap price. What they do not know about streaming is that many newer artists are struggling to maintain a career since streaming became popular. Some newer artists can barely make a few dollars if their songs do not get a lot of plays. Each time you stream a song, the artist gets barely a fraction of a penny. Consider this with newer artists that have not been discovered yet. The…
Career Research Essay: Music Producer Choosing a career is hard to do; especially when you want to make some form of art as a job. Most of the time, companies do not just hire musicians, and usually the pay for hired musicians is not steady or substantial. Many musicians are either self-employed or controlled by some record label. I would hate to be stuck to a contract, so I want to be a producer. A producer is someone who assists musicians in making tracks and even whole albums. Often,…
world. Believed by many musicologists and historians to be the result of American culture spreading its influence after WWII, there is little doubt that globalization has created an international arena in which people can purchase,stream, and download music. However, not all academics adhere to the idea that the United States is the origin of today’s omnipresent musical marketplace. In his book Noise Uprising, Yale professor Michael Denning argues for an alternate take on the formation of our…
Is Auto-Tune Hitting The Right Pitch? Auto-Tune’s Impact on Revenue in The Music Industry In 1990 the technology that would change music forever was invented. Oddly enough that invention was first developed as a software to interpret seismic data for the oil company Halliburton (Ives). As soon as the software was implemented into the company, it took internal production in the U.S. from 30 to 60 percent, netting the company about $1 billion a year (Prisco). However, the creator of the software…
sharing their speculations and passions with their audiences. What make these people so unique is not only their ability to access such a wide audience, but also to use music as a powerful tool in the world of social change. As our governments and social structures seem to be increasingly faltering, it is hard to imagine a space for music in the fight. 2014 has been particularly memorable in terms of protests and calls to action. But as we watch the dissidents on the front line in Ferguson…
Music is the ultimate source of entertain for everybody. It's a part of human life nowadays. In fact, music is the medicine for soul. The love for musicians and singers among people is beyond limitless which clearly reflects the popularity of them and their prominence. There are several music genres. Whenever people talk about rap, a name comes in everybody's mind. That's none other than Drake. Yes, Aubrey Drake Graham is among the leading name in rap music. Who can forget hits like "Thank me…
radio we often we usually hear the latest songs that are the most popular or newest hit. We think of the artist and how good he or she is and when their song will be available to download so we can jam out. What we do not realize is how that song came to be. Not the song originally, but the artist and how they got their music out to the public. Some people may know that when getting a song out you may have to go to a record company and see if you are star worthy. One of the most famous record…
Heart in 1759. Handel, though German born, spent most of his life in England and became a naturalized citizen of that country. He was a virtuoso composer of Opera and Oratorio, and was one of the most versatile composers of his time. He began studying music when he was seven years of age; Duke, for whom his brother valeted, recognized him as being great. Handel studied the violin, harpsichord, and organ among many other instruments. Handel produced his first Opera at the age of nineteen. After…