16. 20th century music

• A revolution occurred in 20th century music listening as the radio gained popularity worldwide, and new media and technologies were developed to record, capture, reproduce and distribute music.
• Because music was no longer limited to concerts and clubs, it became possible for music artists to quickly gain fame nationwide and sometimes worldwide.
• Soon audiences were able to be exposed to a wider range of music than ever before, giving rise to the phenomenon of worldwide music.
• Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and recording of music videos and concerts. Music of all kinds also became increasingly portable.
• Headphones allowed people sitting next to each other to listen to entirely different performances or share the same performance.
• Copywriting rights strengthened but at the same time new media technologies also improved which made it easier to record and download copywrited music illegally.
• The invention of electronic instruments and the synthesizer in the mid-20th century revolutionized popular music and accelerated the development of new forms of music such as dance, trance, drum and bass which gave djs to explore a new kind of music which is more upbeat and danceable.
• The invention of new digital dj software (Atomix virtual dj) revolutionised djing from vinyls to mp3s and cd mixers through the computer. Being able to use any mp3 and mixing it through the computer and being able to see the beats per minute and automatically synchonising the songs and speeding up or slowing down the song making it easier to mix in. You can also add special effects onto the track aswell such as overlooping, adding in a beat grid, looping and adding sounds. Another new effect is mixing music videos into each other, this can be done with a number of different cuts, fades and wipes this is sychronised with the song.
• Amplification permitted giant concerts to be heard by those with the least expensive tickets, and the inexpensive reproduction and transmission or broadcast of music gave rich and poor alike nearly equal access to high quality music performances.