1. Recorded Music Powerful And Controversial

2. Timeline Sheet music/first transmissions in 1800s Thomas Edison 1877 phonograph Mary Had a Little Lamb/tinfoil Alexander Graham Bell graphophone/wax cylinder Dictation machines/especially in D.C. Emile Berliner/gramophone/disk instead of cylinder

3. Timeline Enrico Caruso 1902 recorded operas Columbia Phonograph Company introduces two sided disks in 1905 1920s African Americans (group that always figures prominently in this medium’s history) help growth Jazz considered to be corrupting youth 1925 electric phonograph replaces hand crank

4. Timeline 1927 jukebox era begins Again Depression stops an industry Radio didn’t help/free music (sound familiar?) Big Bands 1940s Frank Sinatra/pop music 1950s Rock n Roll/Elvis Presley/Sun Records

5. Timeline 1955 Blackboard Jungle includes Bill Haley and the Comets “Rock Around the Clock” Song/film cause sensation and are considered to be corrupting youth (again?) 1960s The Beatles/British Invasion In U.S. you have drug culture/Woodstock bands Country Western/Grand Ole Opry/Loretta Lynn And others

6. Timeline 1970s Disco rules/Saturday Night Fever soundtrack becomes phenomenon Mid 1970s punk rock in Britain and U.S. 1981 MTV debuts to small number of markets Video Killed the Radio Star first video Pat Benatar first real video star Then Madonna

7. Timeline 1985 US Senate wants records rated and labeled Parents Music Resource Center PMRC Led by Tipper Gore Key lawsuits are filed against musicians and their lyrics influence corrupting children (again?)

8. Timeline 1988 Compact Disc sales overtake LP sales 1990s alternative grunge/Seattle/Nirvana Gangsta rap/TuPac’s murder 1999 MP3 hurts sales (remember radio in the Depression?) 2000 + music conglomerates form

9. Some Paranoid Terms Subliminal embeds: Kill! Kill! Kill! Backmasking: Satan! Oh sweet Satan! Lyrics that corrupt our youth (again?)

10. Future? What do you think? MP3? On-line radio? Satellites?