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| a recording technique in which representation of the sound wave is stored directly onto the recording medium |
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| a professional who adapts a song for specific singers and other musical elements |
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| artists and repertoire executives (A&R) 197 |
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| specialists in the music industry who discover and develop the groups and performers |
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| plastic discs with digitally encoded music read by lasers |
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| a legal right that grants to the owner of a work protection against unauthorized copying |
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| demonstration recordings sent in to record companies by artists' agents, managers, or by the artists themselves |
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| a recording technique in which sound is broken down electronically into numerical code |
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| rivalries in which companies selling specific types of recording and playback devices try to put competing companies with competing formats out of business |
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| early playback device using a flat disc with lateral grooves cut on one side |
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| recorded sound true to be original |
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| the backing music for rap; also refers to the culture of rap |
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| any recording industry company not owned by one of the major labels |
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| a coin-operated phonograph |
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| a professional who specializes in writing the words of a song |
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| the name for compressed digital audio films that enable music to be downloaded from internet |
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| early jukeboxes set up in amusement arcades |
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| thomas edison's name for his first recording device |
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| in the music industry, the person who oversees the making of a master recording |
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| instrumental music with a steady, syncopated beat |
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| music composed of rhymed speech over drumbeats |
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| the radio stations whose playlists are tracked weekly to determine airplay popularity for individual songs |
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| a point-of-sale computer system that determines sale for best-selling records list |
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| recording technique in which tracks are placed individually in the right or left speaker |
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| district in NYC where songs were written "on order for Broadway shows |
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| a single recorded sound source, used in multitrack recording |
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| small speakers that reproduce high sounds |
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| early hand-cranked record player introduced by the Victor Company |
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| large speakers that reproduce low sounds |
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