Izzys Decades: 20s, 40s, 60s, 80s, 00s

Jessicas Decades: 10s, 30s, 50s, 70s, 90s,

2010s
Our Styles:
1910
2000

1920
2010

Ragtime
Jazz
Alternative

1930

Scat
Pop

1940

Swing

1950

1960

Blues

1970

1980

1990

Disco

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html
Notes:
1877 Thomas Edison accidentally developed the phonograph by
running tinfoil under a telegraph
Chichester Bell and Charles Tainter create the gramophone,
similar but with a cylinder
1888 Emile Berliner invents the gramophone
Uses a disc instead of cylinder
1890s Jukebox is now popular!
A big profit was achieved
Early 1900s Production techniques of discs and cylinder give recorded music
a clearer sound
Boom in music production
Player piano becomes popular, cannot be copyrighted
Payment to artist required to use song is now a law
Cylinders begin to fade as music technology advances
1906-

1920 Radios now mass produced

Radio stations put up in a few areas
Record sales decline significantly
1925 Both companies fight
1930s
Vitrolac discs are used to record radio
huge decline in record sales
1933s
FM radio invented by Edwin Armstrong
RCA tries to smother it by creating something similar and not
paying him any money
1943
V-Discs are shipped off to entertain troops
Vinyl is the new material for discs
1948

Companies go back in forth creating new models with different

sizes and speeds
1964 Cassette tape became popular
Started creating portable audio players become popular
30 minute format produced
1966 8-track tape introduced
Offered as a better alternative to the 4-track
Not as popular
1970s

Copyright is enforced
8-track starts to fade
Walkman invented(1979) by Sony
Improving sound quality

1980s

Philips and Sony decide to work together

CD was invented, a major improvement
Surpasses record sells in 1988
Within three years companies had sold at least a million
most explosive boom period in recorded audio history

1987 There are protests

1990
Mp3 is born!
Means moving picture experts group one
1992 2% royalty rate required
Lots of lawsuits
1995 Audio streaming introduced by RealAudio
1997 People can download things from the internet
Prince becomes the first to put his album out there for free
1998 RIAA accuses unnamed internet pirates of posting audio files
from hundreds of recording artists
Lots of internet piracy
1999 People are suing Napster
2003 Apple computer launches most successful online music store to
date(iTunes)
In its first year, Apple sold 70 million songs at $0.99 per song,
very profitable for Apple, giving them nearly $70 million in sales