
Originally Posted by
J Anderson
Music will not disappear. The music industry may very well disappear. Before the nineteenth century there wasn't a Music industry. What we call classical music was sponsored by either the Church or the Nobility. If you did not live in a city you did not hear this kind of music. Those who did not live in cities or who were of too low a caste to attend a concert or opera still had folk music. The industrial revolution gave the middle class the leisure time to learn music, cheaper musical instruments, and printed music. The later invention of phonograghs, radio, tape recorders, etc. created a music industry that while on the one hand has preserved the voices of singers from Enrico Caruso to Johnny Cash, and given almost every one on the planet access to pop music, it also neatly boxes every performer for sale to a particular group of music fans.
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