Exam 9: Sound Recording

TV's rising popularity affected radio,but not the recording industry.

The Sony Walkman was the first device that enabled consumers to easily take their recorded music with them.

A&R people are most closely associated with the ________ segment of the recording industry.

When radio began to gain popularity,sales of records and record players skyrocketed.

Which of the following is true?

Thomas Edison thought his 1877 invention of the phonograph was best suited for the recording of the spoken work.Although music because it's primarily content,what business innovations have the industry developed to fulfill using the invention primarily for the spoken word?

Which of the following best fits into the talent segment of the recording industry?

Which of these is not one of the six main outlets for music distribution?

The Peas,U2,Sting,Tim McGraw,Pearl Jam and Bob Dylan are among the artists who have gone commercial and endorsed products.What artist and product-endorsement surprised you the most? Which did you find the best fit?

Rock music became part of the counterculture in

Thomas Edison,the inventor of the phonograph,thought it would be useful as a dictation machine.

Recording different instruments and singers separately is possible due to:

The Billboard charts are the recording industry's most significant source of feedback.

The gramophone recorded onto a disk; its predecessor (the graphophone)recorded onto a:

By World War I,record players were commonplace and the recording industry enjoyed a boom period that lasted until:

The dawn of the 60s brought a new clean-cut breed of rock star,thanks to American record companies' desires to increase profits.

Touring arrangements are made by a record company's ________ department.

__________ provide(s)the key source of feedback to the music industry.

Heavy metal music emerged as rock became part of the counterculture.

By 1960,record companies wanted to clean up rock's image