Response V- Recording

Today I am responding to the lecture discussing recording/music and its philosophy. I had already known that music had existed for hundreds of thousands of years, and that it was presented as something that was only shown as something for a special occasion, like a party, or a gathering, at the time. My reflection upon this statement is how "different" music is now than from what it was back then. For example, 200 years ago, when someone wanted to hear a song, they had to gather the group or band to perform the song, and listen to them play the song once or twice. Nowadays, we can listen to any song that we would like (an option of 97 million to choose from) and listen to them whenever and wherever we would like, on-demand. Thomas Edison, Emile Berliner, and James Clerk Maxwell were the three key people who basically turned music into the mass that it is today, each changing the mass medium a little bit itself. It interested me of how easily music can spread (memorizing lyrics, changing the ideas inside of songs, sharing songs with others for payment) and how most songs usually have common message. Specifically, without the improvement of electromagnetic transmission (sharing certain music/sound) we would still be listening to music through a much more old fashioned way, centuries ago. I found that a lot could be learned from this lecture, and it was one that I could really comprehend. 10/01/2015 As we finished the lecture a few days ago, I now have more to add about the discussion. One thing that I learned after reviewing this lecture is that the Hindenburg incident was all narrated on radio to an audience.