The world has had many forms of listening to music. The world first started out with the phonograph.
After this device was made, not another music device came around until the bulky jukebox after WWII. After the jukebox was created though, America began to see a much quicker musical device delivery system then before.
The record player came out in 1957. It was more modern of a system then ever before (well duh...) and it had an electric motor, another plus side about it was you didn't have to crank it at all like the phonograph. It was probably the coolest things to have, and the more records you had to play on your system the cooler and wealthier you seemed to be, kind of like the iPods, iTouchs, and iPhones today.
The cassette player, which my mom used in her teenage days to record music off of the radio, came in 1963 by the Phillps corporation. They were smaller then the record players, and the cassettes were much smaller than the records. I believe the cassette player started the hand held craze in the world because it was easier to carry around
The boombox was the big basically BOOM of the 80's generation, it started out a lot heavier then boomboxes today, and started out only playing cassettes. However, by the 90s when CD's came out they were playing CD's, cassettes, as well as continuous playing of the radio.
The cassette player was the first handheld device with earplugs and all. It came out very early in the 80s, and was along side the boombox on portable music. You could carry the cassette device for personal use while carrying the boombox for public use with friends.
The CD player was created in 1982 which began the crazy $20 a CD event. I remember I at least had 2,500 dollars in CD merchandise at the age of 8...crazy to me in fact. The CD's I believe actually weren't as cool as cassettes however, the CDs didn't have film so they broke a lot less easier and also later had cool designs on them to attract merchants.
In 1998 the first MP3 player was created by our east side Korea. This was a HUGE deal, I mean you could choose different artists and songs and put them all on ONE device. This was like with cassette players and boomboxs however, you just clicked and saved rather than sat and recorded. It brought the word into a whole new genre by using a computer to download and transfer music onto a device. The modern MP3 player, the kind and design we use today though was created by a German company who patented and licensed for their design, making billions in this market.
THE FIRST IPOD! Duh duh duh...Apple invented the Ipod in 2000 and it was the most advertised music player around. Tony Fadell is the person who have to thank for this music player and with this music player the entire world changed. I am guessing over 65% of Americans have owned some form of the Ipod in their life.
Something I never heard of until I researched the subject was a French company made the Mp4. This player started out the revolution of not only putting music on your music player but also videos, images, and text files...helping out apple immensely with ideas.
The Ipod craze continued with the touch controlled Ipod nano and then later producing the Itouch in 2007 where you could also get on the internet and receive millions of apps to download. In fact the newer Itouch has a 64GB of space availability, which could put what like 15 CDS on one device? Thats a huge step up in the medium.
The medium of musical devices is continually being remediated from the phonograph to a CD player shoe made in 2007. So much has been done in the musical device section of the world in the 130 years since it began.
I would go with the definition that "the goal of remediation is to refashion or rehabilitate other media. Furthermore, because all mediations are both real and mediations of the real, remediation can also be understood as a process of reforming reality as well" (pg. 3-4). Remediation as a reform in other words.
I would believe this because all inventors have done is refashion/rehabilitate or recreate the original music device the phonograph. The phonograph started out as an amazing recording and sound invention and now has transformed into something huge. It started out as only few homes having phonographs to now all homes have at least some type of musical device (at least in America). I know my family has like 12 used and using musical devices, and this is not including our phones. Overall this is the best definition because it literally defines what has happened to the musical device world perfectly.
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http://www.xtimeline.com/timeline/History-of-Music-Playing-Devices
Its’ amazing something like the phonograph has changed our lives in so many different ways. I believe it started trends like; Clothing (though you could see it better on the TV), a lot of the artist talk about what they wear in their songs; it has drastically changed the way we talk. A lot of the worlds used in the south wouldn’t be heard here in the west of it wasn’t for fast media as music and its devices. I’m going to quote Bolter & Grusin as I did in my example because the phonograph is a perfect example of remediation “we may think of something like a historical progression, of newer media remediating older ones and in particular of digital media remediating their predecessors.”
ReplyDeleteAs technology and new ideas progressed so did the need to create something new for new generations. “After the jukebox was created though, America began to see a much quicker musical device delivery system then before.” This shows how upcoming generations want things faster quicker, now versus the slow, low playing phonograph. When I was reading the chapters I too thought of music but I think of taking back to the phonograph. The farthest back I thought of was the tape player because growing up I couldn’t afford to buy a CD player they were too expensive. You were paying maybe $30 for the cheapest CD player and about $19.99 for a CD.
In your timeline we can see how the phonograph is being reform throughout generations and not only providing a foundation for future music playing devices but it started a cultural change, an economical change, and a social change for future generations to come. I bet future generations won’t even know that at one point and as early as the 80s we listened to music thru a cassette player.
Ok, so yes - devices to play music have evolved -- but why? The reason(s) for the evolution(s) is (are) the beginning of the argument for each individual remediation. So, be sure these sorts of questions are answered through argument and not just reporting -- make your case through examples, sure, but weave bits of the text in there to support the unique argument you're making to answer the question. You can do it!
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