Figure 1.--This image shows an American family enjoying music together, probably during the 1930s. Populat tunes could be brought as sheet music. You could also buy books with collections of favorite pieces. Mote the boy's Eton collar. |
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We note a range of interesting images concerning music in home environments providing views of family relationships and clothing trends. Music in the home during the 19th century mostly meant family memmbers playing instruments together or the mother playing the piano and the father and children singing along. Music was a medium the entire family could enjoy together. Here sheet music was very important and continued to be so through the 1920s. Thomad Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. This and the development of commercial radio in the 1920s brought music into the homes of those who were mot musically gifted. At first the whole family could listen to music together. This began to change especially by the 1940s with jitterbug music and bobby soxers. Today there are substantial generational differences in musical tastes. Teenagers and adults often have very different tastes in music. Here there are differebces among ethnic and religious groups.
We note a range of interesting images concerning music in home environments providing views of family relationships and clothing trends. Music in the home during the 19th century mostly meant family memmbers playing instruments together or the mother playing the piano and the father and children singing along. Music was a medium the entire family could enjoy together. Here sheet music was very important and continued to be so through the 1920s.
Thomad Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. Edison's honograph used cylinders which you could record your own sounds. Singing talking what ever. It also played pre-recorded cylinders. The gramophone was invented by a Berliner. It had music recorded on a round flat disc. It could only play pre-recorded music. The phonograph and gramophone were two different machines. However the word phonograph entered popular usage and came to mean any system of recorded music.
Eventually the gramaphone round disc system became the one used by all manufacturers. Even Edison changed to this format but abandoned disc pressings when his factory burnt down. The phonograph proved to be an ememsely popular machine. Theyoung Ludovic Koch when an 8 year old boy in Germany went about building up a sound collection that contained sounds from nature family events and the voices of famous personalities of the day. It was an extraordinary collection built up by a boy. The collection disappeared when he had to leave Nazi
Germany in the 1930's. He started the sound collection in 1890. The only item surving is an 1890 bird song recording. He went on to develop the BBC nature sound library between 1930 and 1960. The phonograph and the development of commercial radio in the 1920s brought music into the homes of those who were mot musically gifted. At first the whole family could listen to music together. This began to change especially by the 1940s with jitterbug music and bobby soxers. New inventions (eight tracks, casettes, and CDs) eventually replaced the vinyl record. Today there are substantial generational differences in musical tastes. Teenagers and adults often have very different tastes in music. Here there are differences among ethnic and religious groups.
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