When you really stop to think about it, music really does play a huge role in our lives. Think how life would really be if there just wasn't any music. Think about movies with no sounds to create the atmosphere - music is a part of everyone, even if they choose not to believe it. We hear it everywhere we go. It is connected to all sorts of technology to move us in one way or another. Music comforts us when we are sad, makes us smile, makes us upset - it has a million ways to affect us in many different levels, whether we recognize it or not. Most of the time we are oblivious to music being around us, if we do not distinctively play a track on the computer or on our ipod - but it is, everywhere. It has always played a huge role in our lives, tracing back to the times when jazz, gospel and the blue were considered, 'trendy' and 'popular' music. Musicians were able to voice their opinion, talk about serious matters through their music. Music started to grow rapidly, introducing different genres of music, appealing to different groups of people. With this increase of music different cultures started integrating with one another and became exposed to different lifestyles and voices. Music has the ability to break this barrier between groups of music and is able to unite people though sound and taste. It has blurred the distinction between, white and black, male and female, north and south. During the expansion of music in variety and style musicians were able to respond to the public, expressing their emotions in music, singing about events, politics etc.
This generation that we live in today is allowing us to easily assess what ever kind of music we want through to means of sharing, downloading and purchasing from the click of a button. We have access to an endless amount of music that is usually taken for granted. The iphone has an application whereby the user is able to hold up his phone to a song playing out in the open, and is able to register the name and type of the song. Thanks to the efforts of modern technology.
The radio was one of the first means of technology that allowed people to know what was going on around the country, as well as listen to music. People were able to judge on their own whether they liked the music or not, without being prejudice. Radio was another form of what we know Television to be today, without having the visual aspects. There were stories, comedies, music, news. The radio was the main focus of the house, whereas the TV has now replaced that spot. The radio is no longer something that family's hold in their house as a center point but it is still used in cars. It is said that radios are more commonly used in sub-urban places because people are more likely to drive cars to get from one place to another, in comparison to those in an urban environments where public transportation is how people travel around the city. People are then. more likely to resort to listening the music on their ipod.
