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History of Recording Industry: Test #1
History of Recording Industry: Test #1. Fischer
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Undergraduate 2
09/26/2011

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Thomas Arne
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First famous composer, composed for Vauxhaul Gardens
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Vauxhaul Gardens
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Most famous pleasure garden
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Parlour songs
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The sheet music to the Pleasure garden music
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Broadsides
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lyric sheets sold on the street for a penny, lower class
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John Mctammany
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Patented player piano in 1850.
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William B Termaine
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Bought rights to player piano and held monopoly on player pianos
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Joseph Henry
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Proved theories about electro magnets that led way to telegraph and telephone
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Daniel Decatur Emmet
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Largest star in black face minstrel
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Virginia Minstrels
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popular minstrel group started by Daniel Decatur Emmet
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Eldridge Reeves Johnson
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made the motor to drive the gramaphone
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Congo Square
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Area of black music in New Orleans, also known as La Place Publique and La Place Des Negre
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Storyville
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red light district in New Orleans
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Antonio “Rony” Pastor
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opened firs clean vaudeville act
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Benjamin Franklin Keith
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ran dime museum, opened colonial theatre sponsored by the catholic church
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Scott Joplin
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Father of Ragtime
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William Christopher Handy
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Father of Blues
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Jesse Lippincott
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Sells both Gramophones and Phonographs
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Victrola
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Machines with the horn hidden inside nice furniture
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Fred Galsburg
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Searched for talent, found Enrico Carsuso, first international 1 million seller
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Enrico Carsuso-
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first international 1 million seller
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Chace act: 1891
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made copyright protection international, added the term “musical” to be protected
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White smith vs. Apollo 1908
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Made disk makers pay publishers to sell their songs
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1972 law made sound recording and song copyright different. 1976 fair use added
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1972 law made sound recording and song copyright different. 1976 fair use added
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Birth of a nation
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D.W Griffith
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Mutual film corp vs. ohio (1915)
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movies were NOT protected by 1st amendment
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1891 Thomas Edison applies for patents on kinetoscope
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1891 Thomas Edison applies for patents on kinetoscope
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Phonofilms-
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first films with sound 1923
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Vitaphone-
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synchronized disks with movies
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National board of censorship
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1909
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MPPDA
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- Motion picture producers and distributers of America. 1922 Headed by Will Hays
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Sir Humphrey Davy
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made arc lighting
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Michael faraday
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principle of induced electricity
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Francis Upton
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Edison’s key assistant
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Grovsner Lowrey
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- patent lawyer, put edison’s Edison Electronic Light Company with investors
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Edison Electronic Light Company
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edison’s first electric light company
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Menlow Park
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Edison’s light bulb attraction
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Edison Electric illuminating co.
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company to figure out how to power lightbulbs
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Compagnie continentale de Edison
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- edison’s international company
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Henry Villard-
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got wealthy from installing lights in ships
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Guglielmo Marconi
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first wireless telegraph, U.S Navy invested in technology
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Lee Deforest
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– invented vaccum tube
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Reginald Fessenden-
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1906 Christmas Eve, made first broadcast of sound
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David Sarnoff
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worked at American Marconi, started at the bottom and worked to the top to become father of radio
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In post WW1 deal, bell got all wired communications, Sarnoff/RCA/GE got all “SPACE” open air
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In post WW1 deal, bell got all wired communications, Sarnoff/RCA/GE got all “SPACE” open air
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1921 RCA/GE brought in Westinghouse and gave them 40% of manufacturing
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1921 RCA/GE brought in Westinghouse and gave them 40% of manufacturing
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J.P Maxfield
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developed Binoral. By putting microphones in the field, could triangulate artillery positions
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Henry Harrison
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recorded high fidelity sound for AT&T. Developed Orthaphonic victrola (bent horn)
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Orthaphonic victrola
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A victrola with a bent horn
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Louis Sterling
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- President of Columbia records in England. Came to U.S to buy American Columbia so he could buy a license Western Electronics Electrical Recording
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Crooning
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- a quieter way to sing, because electric recording could amplify the sound
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Dr. Frank Conrad
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Broadcast form roof of Westinghouse (8-xk) (KDKA)
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NBC (National Broadcasting Company)-
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Joint venture of 3 companies, split into red and blue. Blue was sold and became ABC
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William S. Paley-
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Made Columbia broadcasting systems (CBS). First to give free programming and charge for commercial time
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FBO-
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Film booking office, owned by Joe Kennedy. Bought by RCA
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Scott Joplin
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father of ragtime
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Francis Barraud
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Made Nipper the dog logo
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Gramophone was the only disc player. Graphaphone and Phonograph played cylinders
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Gramophone was the only disc player. Graphaphone and Phonograph played cylinders
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Kinetoscope-
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First motion picture machine
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Reginold Fessendon-
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First public broadcast of sound in Lon
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Al Joleson
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Starring singing in “The Jazz Singer”
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Christy’s Minstrels
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Minstrels who did Foster’s songs
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