The Development of the Music Industry

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The Development of the Music Industry

The Music Industry was founded in the year of 1877, when the first recording of a human voice on the first tinfoil cylinder phonograph, was made by Thomas Edison, on December 6th. After this development, many other major events were founded in the Music Industry.

Major events included, another Thomas Edison invention, in the year of 1913. He finally conceded victory to the flat disc. This was a major creation in the industry, reason being, a number of songs were able to be put on the flat disc, making you wonder how this is done on such a flat surface with a thickness of 1/4 inch.

A third major event was "The Sugar Hill Gang" releasing the first commercial rap hit "Rapper's Delight" this occurred in 1979, bringing rap off the New York streets and into the popular music scene. Rap originated in the mid 1970's, ever since then, this type of music has become one of the most important commercial and artistic branches.

A fourth major event in the music development was the TPS-L2 Walkman portable audio cassette player, being introduced by the make 'Sony'