Techonopop+-+The+Secret+History+of+Technology+and+Popular+Music

Grammaphone - redefined sound and shape of popular music, determining things like length of songs, recorded songs on 78 record, could only record 3 minutes of sound (printed music to phonograph records) Richmond, Illinois, first jazz recording studio, piano company Starwood entered record business, created small record studio and printer, popularized "old time" / "hillbilly" music, called Genette Studios
 * The Original Hardware Upgrade**

Edison's phonograph, invented 1876, played wax cylinders, until mid 1920's when, microphones replace recording horn, wires replace saphire engraving stylus, wax cylinder recording determined instruments used, some instruments recorded better than other into wax (banjo better than guitar) mid 1920's microphone replaced wax cylinder, allowed lower voices to become popular (baratones instead of tenors), understood that electricity and microphones made music more human, not less, people sing TO you, not AT you, (Bing Crosby, became famous SOLELY through advancing technologies
 * Going Electric**

Magnetic tape recording emerged after WWII, if you play a bad note, have to ruin recording, start cutting wax from scratch, would ruin original recording, Bing Crosby record radio shows prior to them airing, considered heresy at the time, soldier bring back German technology, first magnetic tape recording, 1947, aired first recorded show, recorded weeks before on magnetic tape, incredibly clear, tape allowed people to become more risque in their recordings, gave birth to adding laughs to recordings, gave original multitrack recorded, each instrument recorded at a time, invention of tape recorders, creation of LP disks, revolution in music
 * The Last Bad Note**

engineers work on unbreakable, create new disk, could fit an entire album on one disk that used to be put on five, made record manufacturing much, much less expensive, many independent record labels created, musicians took advantage of the new technology, disk allowed for perfect realizations of scores, development of FM radio over AM was revolutionary as well, FM much better quality, more stations, more types of music to listen to, FM, music as long, profane, or anything as they wanted, AM had to be tuneful, no profanity, only 3 minutes long, live recordings were becoming almost synonymous with recordings
 * The Long Version**

Modern technology studios allow a person to become a one man band, one person can create each track, overlap them, multitracking, started in late 1940's, originally record one, play recording while playing a new track, Les Paul create a better way, created data recorders, 8 tracks on a one inch piece of tape, eventually all tracks mixed together, if mistake made, only rerecord that section, Les Paul created a way to do reverb, without it, made music sound "dead", essentially was the start of "effects", recording studio almost became an instrument, recordings were complete, flawless pieces of art, recording became almost more important than the musicians
 * The One Man Band**