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| A legal right that grants to the owner of a work protection against unauthorized copying. |
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format wars
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| Rivalries in which companies selling specific types of recording and playback devices try to put competing formats out of business. |
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| Thomas Edison’s name for his first recording device. |
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| A representation of the sound wave is stored (physically) directiy onto the recording medium. |
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A recording technique in which sound is broken down electronically into a numerical code.
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Early jukeboxes set up in amusement arcades.
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Early playback device using a flat disc with lateral grooves cut on one side.
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| District in New York City where songs were written ;on order; for Broadway;shows. |
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| Instrumental music with a steady, syncopated beat. |
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| Early hand-cranked record player introduced by the Victor Company. |
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| A coin-operated phonograph. |
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| Large speaker that reproduces low sounds. |
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| Small speakers that reproduce high sounds. |
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| A single recorded sound source, used in multitrack recording. |
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| Recording technique in which tracks are placed individually in the right or left speakers. |
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high-fidelity (hi-fi) sound
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| Recorded sound true to the original. |
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| Music composed of rhymed speech over drumbeats. |
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| The backing music for rap; also refers to the culture of rap. |
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| Plastic disks with digitally encoded music read by lasers. |
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| The name for compressed digital audio files that enable music to be downloaded from the Internet. |
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| A device for recording sounds and images on reels of magnetic tape. |
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Interchangeability of hardware and software of different types.
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videocassette recorder (VCR)
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| An improvement on the videotape recorder (VTR) that uses cassette tapes instead of reels. |
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| Recording of a television program for playback at some later time. |
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| Avoiding commercials while videotaping by using the pause button. |
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| Avoiding commercial while playing back a videotape by fast-forwarding through them. |
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| A single-unit video camera and recording device. |
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Digital Video Recorders (DVRs)
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| Specialized computers with oversized hard disks to store programming. |
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| Any recording industry company not owned by one of the five major labels. |
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artist and repertoire (A;R) executives
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| Specialists in the music industry who discover and develop the groups and performers. |
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| Demonstration recordings sent in to record companies by artists’ agents, managers, or by the artists themselves. |
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| In the music industry, the person who oversees the making of a master recording. |
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| Those who adapt a song for specific singers and other musical elements. |
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| A professional who specializes in writing the words of a song. |
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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 sales for best-selling records lists.
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