Emergence of digital downloads

The music industry hasn't been the same since the birth of digital download.There has been a decrease of record sales which has resulted in musicians having to work ten times harder than usual, finding alternative ways of promoting thier music. The effect of the digital download on the music industry has lead to record companies realising singles through downloading websites such as itunes.Releasing singles download has made an impact in terms of increasing record sales, but it still hasn't made the music industry as comfortable as it use to be due to the rapid growth of music sharing softwares.As we are aware, the introduction of these digital downloads doesn't neccessarily mean progression because there is a massive sound quality difference between the music you purchase with your own money than the music you downloaded for free, therefore the emergence of digital download doesn't signal the end of the music industry.

World music can be defined as music that are of an origin,music that are created and performed by indigenous musicians.
World music has characteristics that distinguishes itself as a genre from the others.The ethnic style and rythm of world music makes the genre
unique,and also traditional ethnic instruments such as the West african harp, steel drums and the sitar has its own tone.These intruments does not
automatically isolates world music as a traditional genre but rather music from all over the world.All these modes and musical inflections is created
and it helps promotes a distinctive sense of national identities.World music from different cultures and different nations have influenced one another
which helps get their music out to the rest of the world.World music also allows people to express themselves in a way they can not do in other genres in terms of
creativity.

Popular Music

According to Theodor W. Adorno, “the popular music industry is an all consuming production line that churns out mass produced and inferior commodities”. One can argue in favour of Adorno as there have been major traits of industrial standardization in music, i.e. most artist take songs and remake it by adding a creative twist to it in order to make it sound different. Adorno may have a point because, this type of standardization has been used over and over again in centuries. On the one hand, one can argue against Adorno theory that the popular music industry is not all consumed and mass produced but just a tradition. Most music of today is remakes of songs from past decades but people still enjoy them due to the slight changes added. We enjoy a piece of music hence the reason why we go out to buy similar piece or a piece that have similar styles or connotations.

Popular Music

According to Theodor W. Adorno, “the popular music industry is an all consuming production line that churns out mass produced and inferior commodities”. One can argue in favour of Adorno as there have been major traits of industrial standardization in music, i.e. most artist take songs and remake it by adding a creative twist to it in order to make it sound different. Adorno may have a point because, this type of standardization has been used over and over again in centuries. On the one hand, one can argue against Adorno theory that the popular music industry is not all consumed and mass produced but just a tradition. Most music of today is remakes of songs from past decades but people still enjoy them due to the slight changes added. We enjoy a piece of music hence the reason why we go out to buy similar piece or a piece that have similar styles or connotations.