Recording Technology

Music is a really big part of life everybody's lives today, wether they realize it or not. Going through your regular routine, you probably hear music multiple times throughout the day. It's hard for me to imagine a life where music wasn't as widespread as it is now, but before recording technology such as the phonograph, music wasn't a very big part of many people's lives. I never knew how much being able to record music changed things. The ability to record music is always something I've taken for granted, and I've never really appreciated how much it changed music and the way people communicate through music. Before you were able to record songs, music was just a form of group communication. Now it's mass communication. It's not often that you see something make that jump, and that makes recording technology all the more interesting to me. It's been very important in making music more commonplace, changing music into a form of mass communication, and allowing artists to have deeper meaning in their songs. I never realized how much that one piece of technology changed music.