Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (TV Mini Series) I Am My Music (2016) User Reviews

Wonderful Though at Times Unsettling

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 13 January 2017]

I'm sad to see this series end. Every once in a while we are presented with something that is absolutely new and educational to us. This series goes into the infrastructure of music, explaining why we respond as we do. But it does not talk down to us. There are expectations of experience as we view the makeup of the popular music world. The eighth and final episode goes to how music has been distributed over the decades. From the Edison Disc and Victrola, to 78 rpm, to LP's, to 45's, and CD's. It ends with a discussion of the downloading phenomena and easy accessibility to just about everything. I am no Luddite, but I do have one issue. I have numerous albums, both vinyl and CD, that are flat out no longer available. Unless you can find a collector, you won't get them on i-tunes or any other services. Especially on small labels featuring garage bands and local groups. Maybe time will take care of this. I have take care to digitize what I have, but if there is something that would have been discovered long ago, I'll never hear it.