Complete 6 pages APA formatted article: American Composers II & New Technology.

Complete 6 pages APA formatted article: American Composers II & New Technology. The record that was played on the phonograph was important to these first beginnings because it was the first time a plastic disk was able to be played. For the early listener, this made the music tangible "when sound is recorded and preserved in a physical medium, however, the listener's consumption need not end when the singing is over, for the music can be separated from the performer and be replayed without the artist's consent" (10). This also allowed people to choose what they wanted to listen to and collect records.

The availability of records at reasonable prices allowed the consumer to have as many as they could afford. They allowed people to listen to their favourite artist for less than the price of a concert ticket (12). The cassette tape developed in 1963 made this an even easier venture because of its construction and size (12). This small cassette "changed the pop music scene" (13) because it again was cheaper and the manufactures could use smaller labels and individuals could create their own recordings. On the example of this is shown in the research done by Peter Manuel who studied North American Indian Music. Because of the cassette, different people could make GCI was able to make a variety of songs using a small group of singers who could record these variations (13).

As time moved on music became more portable because it became smaller and easier to take wherever someone was going. This allowed listeners to determine where they listened and they could listen to music with other people. One of the drawbacks for some listeners was that although they could enjoy the music they couldn’t see the person who was singing. The Stereophone and the Illustrated Song Machine were created to resolve this issue by adding a simple mechanism that played pictures in time to the music when played on a cylinder. These were invented in 1905 gave rise to the "projecting phonograph" created by Albert Wier. (19) These illustrations point out the fact that in the early days of the phonograph people wanted to have an experience that was as much like real life--if a voice was coming from something in their home, they wanted to see who was&nbsp.singing.