Mass media yesterday

The chapter on books, and watched a BBC documentary on Gutenberg.  Here's Colour Record No. 356, Side A:

 

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Colour Record No. 355, Side B:

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Colour Record No. 354, Side B:

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Colour Record No. 354, Side A:

Mass media, April Fools' Day

Still on the TV chapter.  We discussed how TV changed music from being just sound to being something audio-visual.  I thought of Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (1960) and its 1990 music video version by Bombalurina  :)  both of which topped the charts btw.  We discussed Video Killed the Radio Star (1979) and Internet Killed the Video Star (2010).  In this way we covered 50 years today.  And I could try to take it another 80 years back, all the way back to Nietzsche, who killed God in Die froehliche Wissenschaft (1882), but I have more stuff to write tonight, so I shall shut my mouth right here for now  :)

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