Welcome to the Tech of Rock N’ Roll project, a site following the influences of technology on popular music from the phonograph to the MP3. Browse through the pages above to find, among other things, the reason popular songs are about four minutes long and how disco helped kill the LP.
Site Contents
1. Early Technology
2. LP versus 45
3. Golden Age of Rock
4. 60’s and 70’s Tech
5. 80’s Innovations
6. The Digital Age and MP3
Analysis: What Does Music Tech Show Us?
About the Project
Since the period advertising is the best gauge of how tech was received, I have used it to illustrate many of my pages. I have also assembled footage of demos of some of this technology, to show how it works and give an idea of how it revolutionized music as each innovation came along. For more advertisements, see the post below.
TEchno Music: The Technology of Rock N' Roll 