Music or rythmic sound has been with us since we humans first discovered that we could make sounds. since thousands and thousands of years it´s evolved and weaved itself into the very fabric of our exicstance. It emotes our feelings nomather what they are, negative or positive. Music feeds us with energy and creates a sort of synergy with our emotions.
Music is under continous evolution troughout our existance. the only way to get music before the 20th century were livemusic, and then there weren´t that much exchange between countries, or should i say exchange between the music the masses listend to. the royalties and nobilty (atleast in europe) had an extensive exchange of culture of all sorts under the last halfpart of the last millenia.
so under that time the only way for the masses to listen to music was from folk musicians, and thus there were a distinction from country to country, althou some countries had a similiar culture, so in scandinavia the folk music is quite similar to eachother.
when steamships were introduced under the last part of the 19th century, the exhcange between countries escalated, and music were affected too. the travelling time increase alot from the sailing days. so music influences flowed faster over the borders. from the steamers the next big impact on music was the invention of appliances that could record and replay music. that, with the invention of radio started the globalism in the music world.
and with the aeroplanes and the aviation industry the musicians could travel between countries in notime atall and the music had no borders, for good and bad. the music started to sound similar, but still it was divided into cultural borders, for example the western world, the eastblock and so forth.
today music is just a click away, and the big recordindustry giants missed the train and now they´re trying to cut their losses by getting into the action again. they lost time and money by ¨tackling downloading from the wrong ends instead of making better and easier alternatives than downloading for free on the internet.
the downside of downloading MP3`s is that physical recordstores are on the incline, I miss going through a recordstore and sorting throu the records and looking for something new and interesting that way and not just throu the internet. now i have to go 80 km to get to a recordstore at all.
but on the other hand i found loads and loads of music i would have missed throu programs like spotify, but i still miss the stores.
So i wonder whats the next step for music is, since the money rules it completly.
We´ll take a song by probably the biggest swedish group ever
ABBA - Money, Money, Money
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