The Future of Music Industry
The future of music is a mixed bag. The digital revolution is in full swing and know one knows where this is going. The record labels are doing their best to keep up but it is not enough. I do not think that they are going to sue 200 billion people. That is how many songs are shared music on all of the shairng networks a MONTH! If the record companies implode what happens next? There could be a music revolution on our hands. Where individuals record their own music and post them on MySpace or other various websites, or make a live recording and post it on you tube. The down side,there may not be any money in it. Once the shairng networks get a hold of it there goes the income, but you may be extremely popular on the net. Or the tech wizards may find a way to encode the downloading stream, making it impossible or very complicated to download. This will save the record companies and start something else. From an economic stand point downloading is the way to go, it is cheap there are no shipping costs. Lets say your average download is 99 cents, that 99 cents is all profit before artist gets his cut. What is going to keep an artist from going to a small studio to record his music. You sell one million downlands, the studio wants 15 cents for each download. that small studio makes 150k and the artist makes 850k. That is very good sum of money for both partners. The recording studio could be located in Tahoka,Texas for all we know. This is all theoretical of course. No one knows what future of the music industry will be. I hope we get more variety than we do now.
By-Daniel Llanas

This is a group effort consisting of three members, Daniel Llanas; Ed Mollohan; and Rick Shiver, giving a brief overview of the music styles and forms of popular music in each decade of the 20th Century.