How Has the Internet Changed the Music and Movie Industries
Music and motion pictures, two of the most popular forms of entertainment today, can easily be traced back hundreds of years ago. Yet a relatively newer form of entertainment (and information) has impacted those long-established industries in as little as a few years: the internet.
Recorded music, technically speaking, can be traced back to April 9th, 1860 with “Au Clair de la Lune” by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville . Though music existed long before this date, it marks the first time music was successfully recorded. “Movies” (rather, plays) as well were a long-enjoyed form of entertainment at the time, and only 28 years later in 1888, “Roundhay Garden Scene” by Louis Le Prince was filmed . Though music and movies have obviously come a long way since then, its purpose has remained steady since its inception: to entertain, convey artistic expression, and generate money.
Eventually with ways to record and distribute these types of mediums, thanks to the inventions of the phonograph in 1877 by Thomas Edison (whose “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was long believed to be the first recording ever) and the motion picture camera and simultaneous invention of the motion picture projector in the 1880s, the future was paved for these forms of entertainment to be distributed to mass audiences . Though the technology used to film movies in that time became quickly outdated, Thomas Edison’s invention was the major recording format for music for over a hundred years after its creation. The music industry technically started in the late 1800s with the selling of sheet music; that is the papers read by musicians to explain how to play the song. The beginning of the 20th century introduced actual record companies beginning to sell physical music media which dominated sales over sheet music by the end of World War I . Since then, only the types of music and storage mediums have changed (vinyl, cassette, and then compact-disk, though other not-so-popular formats came and went
Recorded music, technically speaking, can be traced back to April 9th, 1860 with “Au Clair de la Lune” by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville . Though music existed long before this date, it marks the first time music was successfully recorded. “Movies” (rather, plays) as well were a long-enjoyed form of entertainment at the time, and only 28 years later in 1888, “Roundhay Garden Scene” by Louis Le Prince was filmed . Though music and movies have obviously come a long way since then, its purpose has remained steady since its inception: to entertain, convey artistic expression, and generate money.
Eventually with ways to record and distribute these types of mediums, thanks to the inventions of the phonograph in 1877 by Thomas Edison (whose “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was long believed to be the first recording ever) and the motion picture camera and simultaneous invention of the motion picture projector in the 1880s, the future was paved for these forms of entertainment to be distributed to mass audiences . Though the technology used to film movies in that time became quickly outdated, Thomas Edison’s invention was the major recording format for music for over a hundred years after its creation. The music industry technically started in the late 1800s with the selling of sheet music; that is the papers read by musicians to explain how to play the song. The beginning of the 20th century introduced actual record companies beginning to sell physical music media which dominated sales over sheet music by the end of World War I . Since then, only the types of music and storage mediums have changed (vinyl, cassette, and then compact-disk, though other not-so-popular formats came and went