Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the boom years of the 1980s--when music lovers were replacing their LPs with CDs--are over. Classical sales have declined from 10% of the record market to about 5% now. To turn a penny, most record companies have halved their output of new classical recordings; instead, the buzz word in the business these days is compilations...
...music industry, Griffith says, folk is a four-letter word. This beautiful 19-song set proves that traditional music, as embodied in the folk revival of the '50s and '60s, is a potent language that still speaks eloquently. Inviting singer-songwriters of that mighty time (Carolyn Hester, Dave Van Ronk) to swap harmony with their current avatars (Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams), Griffith is host to an all-star sing-out: great versions of He Was a Friend of Mine and Wasn't That a Mighty Storm. For the young, this package will offer not memories but revelations, if they...
Sarnoff's technical ability propelled him quickly through the ranks at Marconi, and in 1915 he submitted an idea for a "radio music box" at a time when radio was mainly used in shipping and by amateur wireless enthusiasts. He believed his device would make radio a "household utility" like the piano or phonograph. "The idea is to bring music into the house by wireless," he wrote in a memo. It was regarded as commercial folly. But he would soon have another opportunity to find backing for his idea. After the Great War, in 1919, RCA was formed by General...
Sarnoff had it all figured out: for RCA to sell radios, it had to have programming--music, news, sports. On July 2, 1921, he arranged the broadcast of the Jack Dempsey-Georges Carpentier prizefight (great ratings in the male demos), which was a watershed event. Within three years the radio music box, now called the Radiola (price: a hefty $75), was a success, with sales of $83.5 million...
Mickey owed a lot of his initial success, however, to Disney's technological acuity. For Disney was the first to add a music and effects track to a cartoon, and that, coupled with anarchically inventive animation, wowed audiences, especially in the early days of sound, when live-action films were hobbled to immobile microphones...