Lecture Response to Recorded Music

To me, the lecture response on recorded music was the most engaging out of all the other mass mediums. This lecture revealed the perspective of music in the 1800s-1900s as a commodity rather than a product. I would have never thought of music as an extravagance knowing how significant it is in our modern day culture! We often take the easy access to music for granted when before it was only group communication. Now music is perceived as a product and is often used for individual experience. However, I believe the sentimental value of music as live group communication will live on through concerts. In addition, music created diversity because when it became available from overseas and was like sharing a piece of culture to other countries and vice versa. Frequently, music is used to spread messages to a mass audience about love, grief, loneliness, ect. and that enabled a new style of writing for people to express their emotions. This enabled us to have diverse music tastes such as rock, country, hip hop, bluegrass, and much more! I wish we could have spent more time on this topic but overall it was interesting.