Phonograph

Imagine a world where there was no iPhone, or computer, and nobody had ever traveled into space, and there was no radio, or TV. Hard to imagine, right? You see, every single one of these items or accomplishments had to be thought through and carried out by people. Sure, the people involved in bringing these ideas to life were smart. But what really helped create these? Motivation. Motivation is the key to success With motivation, you can do anything you set your mind to and it doesn’t matter how…

2015 was a record breaking year for box office revenues. Considering this fact and the presence of numerous multiplex cinemas scattered about almost every city in the United States, many might be surprised to learn that cinema attendance, as a percentage of the population, is among the lowest it has ever been. This paper will seek to explain this conundrum by examining forces that have impacted the demand of viewing movies at cinemas throughout history. The Origins of Movie Theaters Various…

willing to forego industry-approved regulation for major films, forcing the MPAA to change from the Production Code towards the modern-day Rating system. Film as an art form has always been infatuated with replicating real life. The modern camera and phonograph recorded visual and auditory stimuli for playback purposes, conveying motion, movement, emotion-- reality. Leading from a war that…

perseverance is Thomas Edison. Fort he people that don’t know who he was, Thomas Edison was one of the biggest inventors of all time. He was one of the first pioneers of telecomunications and modern electricity services, he even invented the telegraph that phonograph and one of the first generations of movie recorder cameras, but one of his biggest inventions of all times wich is worldwide recignized and…

Sorel also replaced the portrait of Benjamin Franklin residing over the inventors with a portrait of Thomas Edison who is considered one of America’s leading businessmen. Edison is credited with the first incandescent light bulb, telegraph and phonograph just to name a few. His inventions not only helped individual productivity and advancements, but led the charge of America’s first technological revolution and began to position America towards the modern electric world it is today. (https://www…

Martha Bayles argues that modernity has removed the humanity so essential to early to mid-twentieth century African American music from contemporary music. She furthers the contention that vernacular musicians, specifically those from the African American idioms of blues and jazz, were not primitives. Rather, they were seasoned professionals with an ability to interject soul and passion into their music. However, to make this argument, Bayles takes aim at the post soul music era as a counter…

Edison began to focus on a series of inventions and advancements that would soon coin him the title “The Wizard of Menlo Park”. His list of inventions includes the phonograph, vitascope (paved the way for the first silent motion pictures), dictaphone, storage battery, and mimeograph. His most prominent achievement would be inventing the first known practical incandescent electrical lightbulb and found a way to generate…

John Philip Sousa was an American composer of the late Romantic era. He is most known today for his role in the American military and for his patriotic marches. Being an American composer greatly influenced his musical style, I think, as his music is very nationalistic. John Philip Sousa was born in Washington D.C. on November 6th, 1854. His father, John Antonio Sousa, was Portuguese and his mother, Maria Elisabeth Trinkaus, was German. Sousa was the third of ten children. John Sousa began his…

Aaron Copland Hayden Bennett MUHL 332: Music History III The American dream is; the dream that everyone could have an equal chance to succeed in life and be prosperous through one’s own hard work, determination, and initiative. In a time when this dream was all you really needed to show a love for this country, Aaron Copland stepped it up one notch and strived to show his patriotism through his passion, Music. Aaron wanted to make an impact on the world not only with his music but his…

I remember the image of a dog looking into the phonograph on the side of the box, as I side stepped it and forced my way into the house. In the place of an old wooden shelf and out tiny black and white was a long low setting glowing colored screen inside a deluxe wooden console like a long table with what…