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"The history of the record industry is an aspect of the general history of the electrical goods industry, and has to be related to the development of radio, the cinema, and television. The new media had a profound effect on the social and economic organization of entertainment so that, for example, the rise of record companies meant the decline of the music publishing and piano-making empires, shifting roles for concert hall owners and live-music promoters."
-- Simon Frith,
"The Industrialization
of Popular Music,"
in Popular Music
and Communication
,
James Lull, ed., (NY: Sage) 1992, p. 51  

 

   

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Recorded Music and Video Games
General Recording History | Technologies | Composers & Genres
Rock Music History and Resources

UPDATED September 24, 2002


General Music & Recording Resources
  • Bibliography of WWI Songs -- from Mississippi State
  • Internet Underground Music Archive
  • Music Resources, from Indiana University
  • A variety of music databases
  • Wolverine Antique Music Society
  • British music is the main focus, but this site covers a variety of classic music.
  • The Web Wide World of Film Music, by Ellen Edgerton
  • A history of several types of music
     
    Music Timelines
  • A rich timeline of music history from 325 to the present.
  • The BBC takes us on a journey through 2,000 years of Western music.
  • Classical music to 1900.
  • Classical music with illustrations.
  • Big bands timeline from 1826.
  • Popular songs, 1850 -1920
  • Story of Tin Pan Alley with timeline of early popular songs.
     
    Sound Technologies
  • Recording Technology History, by Steven Schoenherr
     
    Composers & Genres
  • Classical Composer Biographies, by Michael Norrish
  • Picture Gallery of 1000 Classical Composers, by [email protected]
     
    Electronic
  • Folklife Exhibit, Library of Congress -- folk music and folklore
     
    Jazz
  • People of Jazz Index, from WNUR & Northwestern University
     
    R&B, Ragtime, & DooWop
  • Ragtime Home Page
    Rock Music History and Resources
  • Rock n Roll Hall of Fame
  • Rockmine Archives, by Roy Deane
  • Internet Underground Music Archive
  • Video Games
  • Arcade video games
  • History of home computer video games 1972 to 1996
     
     

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