ABSTRACT

1. CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION

Music is all around us, it’s a part of every person’s life. It has become a necessity that

each and every person living in the world has become beneficiaries of this at one point in

their lives. From childhood sing-a-long songs, to garage grunge music, and everything

between it is all around the world. Music is everywhere and it’s hard to imagine going

one day without listening to some variety of music. According to Hesmondhalgh,

“Music provides a basis for intimate relations with others: a parent singing a child to

sleep; three sisters expressing their feelings for a fourth by singing to her on her

birthday; two lovers in bed hearing a song that they will forever associate with each

other.” This only means that music plays a vital role in our lives, as well as it is able to

interact with certain private and public aspect of a person’s life

Listening to and playing music also helps de-stress, relax, and sometimes it can help

motivate others in challenging times. Some researches, connecting to business practice

suggests that well-being is of primary importance to employers and employees today.

A small number of studies have begun to explore the influence of music on well-being

at work following evidence that music listening can enhance productivity and morale,

and that people use music listening to manage their well-being in daily life. (Haake,

2003)

“… Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there,” writes Daniel

Levitin “….weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war,

stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers
rocking their infants to sleep and college students studying with music as a

background….” He also continued to note that music is and was always part of the

fabric if everyday life. From all across the world and for most of human history, music

was almost as natural an activity as it is breathing and walking, and everyone

participated in it. Music has been involved in every culture, up to this day. Needless to

say, music has withstood the test of time.

Music has been discovered in every culture in present time, as well as dating back

in the past, rooting from Africa. Music is one of the most basic art forms and became a

way of life for many; a means of expression relative to emotions, culture, and the self.

Music is all around us, and it’s hard to imagine going through a day without listening

to some variety of music. Music continues, and is continuing to evolve tremendously

from prehistoric times today.

As music continues to evolve, so does making revenue out of it continue to

evolve. From the birth of the first phonograph, to the first vinyl record, first cassette

tape, much has changed. In the most obvious way, digital technologies have redefined

the way music is packaged and distributed. But as music continued to evolve, much

has endured along it.

1.1. BACKGROUND AND NATURE OF THE PROJECT

As music consumption has become digitized, the old business models primarily in the
recording industry has become obsolete as the sound recording no longer embedded on
Compact Discs but instead has become files popularly known as mp3. Apart from these
changes, recorded music consumers especially in the Philippines, no longer buy but instead
opt for shared files or rip from web sites where they could download and convert this in the
appropriate file which their respective media player recognize
 1.2. PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

1.2.1. Project Goals

1.2.2. Project Objectives

1.3. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

1.4. SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

1.4.1. Scope

1.4.2. Limitation

1.5. DEFINITION OF TERMS

2. CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

3. CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

4. CHAPTER IV: SITE PROFILE AND ANALYSIS