Discuss the technological developments in the 1920s and their impact on the popular music industry
What will be an ideal response?
phonograph recording after the turn of the century
radio in 1922
sound movie in 1929
parlor piano replaced by radio and the phonograph
gradual shift in the consuming public from an active to a passive role
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performer?
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