The Music Business and Review

The Music Business and Review

Everything prior to Unit 10

10.3.4 Was Due 5/22

10.4.4 Due 5/24 - today!

10.5.2 Due 5/25

All that is left is Unit 11 and the final!!!!

​Assignments:

​The purpose is.....

The purpose of any business is to make money. If you can make more money than it costs to run the business, it's called profit. The music publishing and recording industries are like any other business in America: They are trying to make a profit. The music business is a multibillion dollar industry that has evolved to be an efficient moneymaking machine.

​What is the process?

1) Identify an artist as having profit potential

-can come from performing sucess or A&R (Artist and Repertoire)

-most record labels do not accept submissions of recordings from unknown and unproven artists.

2) Once under contract, they word to produce a saleable product.

-this includes songwriters, arrangers, producers, engineers

3) Product is distributed.

Reorder

Reorder the following

• Work to provide product

• Product distributed

• Consumers listen and purchase

1

2

3

• 1
• 2
• 3

There are three large companies that are responsible for the majority of music that is recorded and sold. Over the years, these three have purchased many smaller companies and gained control of their labels and artists.

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​The Big Three

Intellectual Property Rights

With the introduction of sophisticated copy machines and the advent of multiple digital audio formats, it has become increasingly easy to copy printed and recorded music.

However, it is illegal according to federal copyright law, and there are some good reasons behind this legislation.

Multiple Choice

There are how many major record companies that control the majority of other labels and artists?

• Three

• Seven

• Five

• Two

Music and Television

In 1948, the CBS television network hired Ed Sullivan to host a weekly variety show called Toast of the Town. In 1955, this show became The Ed Sullivan Show and was broadcast from CBS Studio 50 on Broadway in New York City. This theater is now home to the Late Show with David Letterman. The Ed Sullivan Show aired on Sunday evenings for 23 years.

We watched Ed Sullivan introduce the Beatles and Elvis!

​British Invasion

Name given to mass introduction of British groups to American culture following the arrival of the Beatles.

Beatles first introduced on the Ed Sullivan Show

Disbanded in 1970

Review

The following questions are a review of Unit 10 as you finish the CST on 5/25.

Multiple Choice

Name the magazine that ranks music each week

• TV Guide

• Billboard

• Downbeat

• Guitar Player

Multiple Choice

Radio airplay is considered in the Billbaord ranking of music

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of the following television programs made an effort to keep African American artists from appearing on their show?

• Hit Parade

• The Ed Sullivan Show

• Soul Train

• American Bandstand

Multiple Choice

The Beatles introduced which of the following rock-and-roll music innovations?

• Elaborate orchestration

• Inventive recording technology

• Complex harmonies

• All of these

Drag and Drop

These are types/examples of rock and roll:​

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

grunge

emo

punk

gospel

disco

Multiple Select

Rock and Roll music was built out of many familiar styles (genres) of music that came before it.

Rock and Roll is a mixture of: (select all that apply)

• blues

• chant

• country

• jazz

• swing

Everything prior to Unit 10

10.3.4 Was Due 5/22

10.4.4 Due 5/24 - today!

10.5.2 Due 5/25

All that is left is Unit 11 and the final!!!!

​Assignments:

Exit ticket -

In the chat, tell me what group was also known as the British Invasion.

Study hall - Monday at 3.

See you in class next Tuesday.