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| Woody Allen |
Sunday, March 20, 2016
Prompt Post #9 Recognizing Significance
THE ECONOMICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
From the phonograph to ITunes the music industry has had a major impact on our world’s society. Everyone from all over the world enjoys and cherishes how music has positively impacted their lives. It is universal and I can honestly say I have never heard of one person who has not enjoyed the sweet and calming sounds of the music whether it's listening to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony or jamming out to Justin Bieber. This is what makes music an affluent part of the economy. Everyone from around gets excited for when a new album comes out and will pay a generous amount of money to listen to the new songs. This is why many people today dream of becoming a musician or vocalist in order to become extremely rich for doing what they love. However this industry fluctuates due to rapid changes in trends, music piracy, and even technology that alter the supply and demand of the music industry in an economy.
Technology has changed the the price levels of the music industry. According to the graph recode.net “at the 1999 peak of the recorded music market, 40 billion of recorded music was sold.” (Pakman ¶ 3) This was achieved through multiple sold copies of CDs and the rise of music videos. This peak of the music soon declined because of the rapid changes in technology. Music services such as Pandora, Youtube, and ITunes have increased the music supply making it more convenient for everyone around the world to enjoy music. This convenience inevitably led to the decline of the price in music to “8 billion dollars”(Pakman, See Graph). Also “a professional album is no cheap thing to make and most record labels are struggling to re-coup what they spend on creating a record. To top this the people who do buy music buy less albums people are more likely to download one single song they like rather than risking their hard earned money buying an album they might not enjoy.” (Frederick ¶ 3) However the music industry can also benefit from the advancements of technology. The media helps promote rising stars and stimulates competition between creating a variety of choices of different of music. As technology advances so do the forms of media specifically in the music industry. Forms such as Youtube, MTV, Soundcloud, and many more services stimulate competition between artists which then makes the artists create better music giving the economy more variety and essentially increasing the demand in consumption of music. Popular artists such as Justin Bieber, Beyonce, and Lady Gaga wouldn’t be as successful without advertisers exposing them to the media. Overall, technology plays a major part in the music industry today it has decreased the price levels making it easier for people to purchase the music and especially increased the popularity of artists and their albums.
Music Piracy for a long time has crippled the economical success of the music industry. “Global music piracy robs the United States of $12.5 billion in economic output and more than 71,000 jobs annually...Sound recordings -- and other content considered to be intellectual property -- are the most important growth drivers in the U.S. economy, accounting for almost 40% of economic growth and nearly 60% of growth in U.S. exports” (K.C. Jones ¶ 1) Not only the artist themselves suffer from this dilemma but many companies that produce, advertise, and sell the music are extremely affected as well. This problem has arise due to the advancements in technology. “Mp3 technology has enabled mass theft and piracy of music in a way that has never been possible in any other point of history.” (Frederick ¶ 3) According to the statistics the United States of America is the number one nation that illegally downloads music right behind them is United Kingdom and so on. (Richter. See graph at the end) The music industry is solely dependent on copyrights. Sadly those protections aren’t enforced as necessary as it needs to be due to the fact that many people and websites all around the world steal music and share it to the world public for no cost in return.
Genres also have a connection to the economic eminence of the music industry. From the beginning everyone from across the world has enjoyed concerts and other performances of music. It started with classical music. For a long period classical music has dominated the industry. From famous symphonies such as Dvorak’s New World Symphony to Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto people pay to see it showed. Unfortunately time changes and music evolves. Even though classical music is still being performed and recorded its not a very significant part of the music industry anymore which is why its hard getting a job when in the music industry when you can only play an instrument. Moving forward in time we have pop and rap music. Pop and rap music are the driving genres of the music industry. According to ITunes the top 10 songs are primarily pop and rap. Artist like Ariana Grande, Beyonce, and Justin Bieber are currently the most successful artists of today and they are coincidentally pop and or rap artists. The concerts they perform at bring in millions increasing the demand of their albums and which then increases supply ending with an overall increase in GDP. Michael Jackson, even though he’s dead, is the king of pop his songs are still played and when he did tour he would make millions because his reputation was and still is forever praised. Therefore even when these artist die physically or fame wise this genre will never die itself it has been popular for many decades now and the music industry is extremely dependent upon its continued success.
The music industry will forever be bittersweet factor to the growth of the economy. When it is shining and successful it definitely shows but when its in a downfall it can be pretty harmful to the economy as well. But it will never fail because everyone loves music it will always and forever be a part everyone life whether it’s through headphones or at a live concert.
Works Cited:
Billboard. "Music: Top 100 Songs | Billboard Hot 100 Chart." Billboard. Billboard, n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2016. Its updates ever so often so information changes with the billboard status
Dargent, Loup. "The Beauty of Music: Top 5 Most Popular Music Genres." LoupDargent.info. Themexpose, n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
Frederick, Damian. "How Has Technology Affected The Music Industry?" Taliferro Music. Taliferro Music, 28 May 2014. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
Houghton, Bruce. "Hypebot." 'hypebot' Type Pad, 27 Sept. 2010. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
"ITunes Charts." Apple. Apple Inc., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2016. Changes charts over time
Jones, K. C. "Music Piracy Costs U.S. Economy $12.5 Billion, Report Reveals - InformationWeek." InformationWeek. UBM, 22 Aug. 2007. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
Pakman, David. "The Price of Music." Recode. Vox Media, Inc., 18 Mar. 2014. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.Richter, Felix. "Infographic: United States Top Music Piracy Ranking." Statista Infographics. Statista Inc., 18 Sept. 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
Technology has changed the the price levels of the music industry. According to the graph recode.net “at the 1999 peak of the recorded music market, 40 billion of recorded music was sold.” (Pakman ¶ 3) This was achieved through multiple sold copies of CDs and the rise of music videos. This peak of the music soon declined because of the rapid changes in technology. Music services such as Pandora, Youtube, and ITunes have increased the music supply making it more convenient for everyone around the world to enjoy music. This convenience inevitably led to the decline of the price in music to “8 billion dollars”(Pakman, See Graph). Also “a professional album is no cheap thing to make and most record labels are struggling to re-coup what they spend on creating a record. To top this the people who do buy music buy less albums people are more likely to download one single song they like rather than risking their hard earned money buying an album they might not enjoy.” (Frederick ¶ 3) However the music industry can also benefit from the advancements of technology. The media helps promote rising stars and stimulates competition between creating a variety of choices of different of music. As technology advances so do the forms of media specifically in the music industry. Forms such as Youtube, MTV, Soundcloud, and many more services stimulate competition between artists which then makes the artists create better music giving the economy more variety and essentially increasing the demand in consumption of music. Popular artists such as Justin Bieber, Beyonce, and Lady Gaga wouldn’t be as successful without advertisers exposing them to the media. Overall, technology plays a major part in the music industry today it has decreased the price levels making it easier for people to purchase the music and especially increased the popularity of artists and their albums.
Music Piracy for a long time has crippled the economical success of the music industry. “Global music piracy robs the United States of $12.5 billion in economic output and more than 71,000 jobs annually...Sound recordings -- and other content considered to be intellectual property -- are the most important growth drivers in the U.S. economy, accounting for almost 40% of economic growth and nearly 60% of growth in U.S. exports” (K.C. Jones ¶ 1) Not only the artist themselves suffer from this dilemma but many companies that produce, advertise, and sell the music are extremely affected as well. This problem has arise due to the advancements in technology. “Mp3 technology has enabled mass theft and piracy of music in a way that has never been possible in any other point of history.” (Frederick ¶ 3) According to the statistics the United States of America is the number one nation that illegally downloads music right behind them is United Kingdom and so on. (Richter. See graph at the end) The music industry is solely dependent on copyrights. Sadly those protections aren’t enforced as necessary as it needs to be due to the fact that many people and websites all around the world steal music and share it to the world public for no cost in return.
Genres also have a connection to the economic eminence of the music industry. From the beginning everyone from across the world has enjoyed concerts and other performances of music. It started with classical music. For a long period classical music has dominated the industry. From famous symphonies such as Dvorak’s New World Symphony to Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto people pay to see it showed. Unfortunately time changes and music evolves. Even though classical music is still being performed and recorded its not a very significant part of the music industry anymore which is why its hard getting a job when in the music industry when you can only play an instrument. Moving forward in time we have pop and rap music. Pop and rap music are the driving genres of the music industry. According to ITunes the top 10 songs are primarily pop and rap. Artist like Ariana Grande, Beyonce, and Justin Bieber are currently the most successful artists of today and they are coincidentally pop and or rap artists. The concerts they perform at bring in millions increasing the demand of their albums and which then increases supply ending with an overall increase in GDP. Michael Jackson, even though he’s dead, is the king of pop his songs are still played and when he did tour he would make millions because his reputation was and still is forever praised. Therefore even when these artist die physically or fame wise this genre will never die itself it has been popular for many decades now and the music industry is extremely dependent upon its continued success.
The music industry will forever be bittersweet factor to the growth of the economy. When it is shining and successful it definitely shows but when its in a downfall it can be pretty harmful to the economy as well. But it will never fail because everyone loves music it will always and forever be a part everyone life whether it’s through headphones or at a live concert.
Works Cited:
Billboard. "Music: Top 100 Songs | Billboard Hot 100 Chart." Billboard. Billboard, n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2016. Its updates ever so often so information changes with the billboard status
Dargent, Loup. "The Beauty of Music: Top 5 Most Popular Music Genres." LoupDargent.info. Themexpose, n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
Frederick, Damian. "How Has Technology Affected The Music Industry?" Taliferro Music. Taliferro Music, 28 May 2014. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
Houghton, Bruce. "Hypebot." 'hypebot' Type Pad, 27 Sept. 2010. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
"ITunes Charts." Apple. Apple Inc., n.d. Web. 20 Mar. 2016. Changes charts over time
Jones, K. C. "Music Piracy Costs U.S. Economy $12.5 Billion, Report Reveals - InformationWeek." InformationWeek. UBM, 22 Aug. 2007. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
Pakman, David. "The Price of Music." Recode. Vox Media, Inc., 18 Mar. 2014. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.Richter, Felix. "Infographic: United States Top Music Piracy Ranking." Statista Infographics. Statista Inc., 18 Sept. 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2016.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
The Pianist: The Life of Wladyslaw Szpilman...How music saved his life
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| Wladyslaw Szpilman |
The story begins with Wladyslaw doing his daily routines playing piano at a radio station in the Warsaw ghetto. He mentioned the daily the smuggling going because of the food shortage within the ghetto. There was this one time a kid was trying to get food to his family and when his was trying to get through the crack in the wall a police man spotted him and started beating at his spine. Wladyslaw tried to save him but by the time he arrived the kid’s spine was demolished he died. Moving forward, the German had finally invaded Warsaw. This is the time when the Jewish men had to go out and start setting up a defense. Wladyslaw’s father and his brother, Henryk were about to set off to help the others. But in the end they all decided to stay in together in Warsaw because they would rather die together at home than die separated from one another. When the Germans established their rule on Warsaw things in the ghetto became much more difficult for Wladyslaw and his family. The Germans started hunts on the Jews where they would pick Jews off the street and beat them up for their own entertainment. Not only that every few days or so there would be announcements restricting Jews by making give up their land, most of their money, and all valuables that were near and dear to the Jews. As time moved the Germans were now commencing the utter destruction of the Jews. They would come into Jewish homes and start killing them. There was this one slaughter in particular that had me teary eyed. A Nazi told everyone in this family to stand up but this one old man couldn’t do so because of his feebleness and age. But that did not matter to the Nazi. He picked of the wheel with the old man in it and threw him out the window. Wladyslaw could hear the old man slamming on the ground. Now it was time for the Jews to “resettle” AKA sent to the concentration camps and soon die in the gas chambers. Wladyslaw and his family were sent to a camp called The Umschlagplatz. This is where the family finally separated. As Wladyslaw was walking with his family to trucks an officer pulled him aside and told him to go back to the ghetto. Wladyslaw screamed for his father but his father saw him and just smiled and waved knowing the fact that he would never see his son again. After this devastating moment there was hope. As Wladyslaw continued working as a pianist for the officers that killed Jews for a living D-Day arrived. Wladyslaw was hiding up in a building until a Nazi finally found him. Wladyslaw was ready to accept his inevitable fate until the Nazi said, “what do you do for a living?” He replied he was a pianist and told him to play. Wladyslaw played Chopin’s Nocturne in C minor. After he finished the Nazi was in awe. The Nazi kept his hiding place a secret and gave him food and supply until one day the Nazi told him he has to leave and told Wladyslaw to hang in there because the war was finally coming to an end. The war finally came to an end and Wladyslaw was rescued by the Soviet Army.
Prompt Post #7: Contemplating Controversey
Music education has been a constant debate in school districts across the nation. Some school districts have already cut the music programs from their school. On the contrary, other school districts not only allow music education to flourish but advocate that it helps the overall learning experience of a student.
The schools that have cut music education do have valid reasons for cutting it. The main reason is school budget is deteriorating. All the across the nation "it’s estimated that since 2008, more than 80 percent of schools nationwide experienced cuts to their budgets." (Law Street ¶3) Since that happened schools have to make cuts and the arts is on the very top of their list. This is because its valued less than anything else. The arts in general are considered dead because of the job field is almost impossible to be successful in society today. So this can make a justification for schools to get rid of it because they want to see their students become successful people in their field of choice.
The schools that allow music education to flourish in their schools believes that it creates an enriching learning environment. Studies show that "The research showed more clearly than ever that significantly more of the brain is used during music making than previously thought." (Education World ¶9) This is saying that music uses a significant portion of the brain than once realized. This is because when you are for example playing the piano you are engaging your brain in a multiple ways. The optical lobe of the brain is decoding the sheet music. Using the muscle memory (the hippocampus) in your fingers to play the piece. The auditory cortex (the part of the brain that processes sound) is listening to the music so to make sure its being played correctly. On top of that being overall expressive and bringing the piece to life takes a lot of thought as well. These things are all going on at the same time and it seems like how does anyone do that? It becomes quite natural and they all work together like a symphony. This can applied to core curriculum classes such math because math like music has patterns. For example in singing there's a pitch line and each pitch has a value (Do Re Mi Fa So.....). As the pitch line goes up the value goes up. Kids that learn this system have better understanding of how a number line works. This shows that music can be applied the average students life even when not in the proper setting.
Sources:
Hopkins, Gary. "Making the Case for Music Education." Education World:. Education World, INC., 1 Mar. 2009. Web. 06 Mar. 2016. <http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr123.shtml>.
Metla, Valeriya. "School Art Programs: Should They Be Saved? - Law Street (TM)." Law Street (TM). Law Street Media LLC, 14 May 2015. Web. 06 Mar. 2016. <http://lawstreetmedia.com/issues/education/cutting-art-programs-schools-solution-part-problem/>.
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| Controversey |
The schools that allow music education to flourish in their schools believes that it creates an enriching learning environment. Studies show that "The research showed more clearly than ever that significantly more of the brain is used during music making than previously thought." (Education World ¶9) This is saying that music uses a significant portion of the brain than once realized. This is because when you are for example playing the piano you are engaging your brain in a multiple ways. The optical lobe of the brain is decoding the sheet music. Using the muscle memory (the hippocampus) in your fingers to play the piece. The auditory cortex (the part of the brain that processes sound) is listening to the music so to make sure its being played correctly. On top of that being overall expressive and bringing the piece to life takes a lot of thought as well. These things are all going on at the same time and it seems like how does anyone do that? It becomes quite natural and they all work together like a symphony. This can applied to core curriculum classes such math because math like music has patterns. For example in singing there's a pitch line and each pitch has a value (Do Re Mi Fa So.....). As the pitch line goes up the value goes up. Kids that learn this system have better understanding of how a number line works. This shows that music can be applied the average students life even when not in the proper setting.
Sources:
Hopkins, Gary. "Making the Case for Music Education." Education World:. Education World, INC., 1 Mar. 2009. Web. 06 Mar. 2016. <http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr123.shtml>.
Metla, Valeriya. "School Art Programs: Should They Be Saved? - Law Street (TM)." Law Street (TM). Law Street Media LLC, 14 May 2015. Web. 06 Mar. 2016. <http://lawstreetmedia.com/issues/education/cutting-art-programs-schools-solution-part-problem/>.
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