Notion of genre One sense is that it has a definable history that you can see the roots it comes from You can think how does the genre of rock descend from blues how does hip hop descend from the same groups but different focus Then you can think of the formal elements What makes hip hop different than rock What is the nature of the relationship between the producer and the listener Video 3 Digital Technology Impact on Music Industry Music Technology Recent developments How is it that we consume music We consume music in a variety of ways from radio and tv and from the personal way with cassettes and CDs For some people they are suspicious of the CD technology because we couldn t easily record it copy it and mess with it When MP3 came along we could mess with it record it and it hurt the music industry Boombox eras Walkman personal and people move from big outdoor like boombox to personal like headphones Revolutionary change Evolutionary change from personal and boombox to iPod So simply having portable devices with increased consumption music in a more personal way made it that we can consume it anywhere and revolutionize how we listen to music
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