The impact of digital technology on popular music culture
Discuss the impact of digital technology on contemporary popular music culture. Illustrate with reference to specific examples.
Technology has always been closely related to music ever since the first humans beat on a taut skin drum in an attempt to express themselves musically. Many centuries later and the technology has evolved alongside the music until now in our time when some may say the technological creativity has surpassed the musical in the world of contemporary pop.
Every era views music through its own technology. The Harpsichord the tool of choice for early composers leading to the piano and the symphony orchestra; the fifties and sixties with the explosion of the electric guitar and rock’n’roll, prog rock
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