Understanding Technology

Question 1: What is 'Equalisation' and how has it changed the working process since the early days of studio recording and mixing? 
Equalisation is the process of balancing frequency components. it is mainly used to match a recorded sound to its original source, meaning that when you get a rough recording of a sound by Equalising the sound, you are manipulating the frequency pattern that the original sound has. There is different types of eq that you can use, some are in softwares, for example: logic pro Chain EQ which you can use about 8 bands of frequency. One example of using a channel EQ is if you have background noise, you can find where the background noise is in the audio. You can eliminate the sound by choosing the hertz of the frequency and remove it. As well as the software you can also EQ by using hardware, hardware tends to be more expensive but it is more delicate, that means if you remove 2 DB's of frequency you can really notice the difference, it also takes more practice and 4 bands in most cases. You also have specific filter types which are: - High paths and low paths filter. High path filter allows high frequencies to Be heard, it blocks or compresses low frequencies. Low path filter allows low frequencies to go through and blocks or compresses high frequencies. - Shelving Filter Is often used to reduce or increase signals above or below a set frequency. - Graphic Equalisation You will often find these in softwares, the input signal gets sent to a group of filters, each filter passes the position of the signal and presents it's own frequency range. To boost or cut frequency components, you would often use a slide control. - Parametric Equaliser Are a multi band equaliser which allows you to control the parameters, which have an amplitude centre frequency and a band width. In the olden days you never had much options like you had now, you could only adjust the bass and the treble. Now you would get an accurate type of Equalisations which can be hardware and software, were in the olden days you couldn't due to the lack of knowledge at the time.

Question 2: What is the polar pattern called that the U47 used for recording vocals? What is the polar pattern of the other microphone that was used previously? Why do you think the directional ability of the U47 helped in the recording process in this particular case?

U47 uses the cardoid polar pattern because the majority of sound pick up is from the front, meaning that reflections from surfaces behind the microphone are not picked up as much. This is great for vocals because the sound is projected from someones mouth straight into the microphone. There is no need to pick up sound from behind the microphone. 

The other microphone uses a bi-directional polar pattern, it is called the RCA 44 ribbon microphone. Compared to the RCA the U47 is much more suited to record vocals with because as I previously explained, it blocks out sound from behind the microphone. 

Question 3: Identify 3 differences between using a software mixer (like the one in 'Logic') and a hardware mixing console (Like the Audient 'Zen' mixing desk in the studios).

1. With the mixing desk you have loads of faders and you can connect microphones and instruments, with the mixing desk you can decide which fader the microphone and instrument would go to. So on the mixing desk you can control the levels, gain, control whether to play it back on logic or listen to the live recording. You can change all the EQ's, effects and volumes. So when you edit it on logic everything you control on the mixing desk is the sound you will get onto logic, so if your trying to play back something on logic if you change the gain and levels on the mixing desk you will then be able to hear it. 

2. On the software mixer you can organise it, add colours so you are organising the seperate tracks in groups. 

3. On the software mixer you can add plug ins such as: reverb, compression, dynamic, EQ, pitching etc. 

4. On the mixing desk depending on the desk you buy you are given a amount of channels (faders), so on the software mixer you can add many unlimited amount of channels.

5. On the software mixer you can add buses and connect channels to one another. For example if you wanted to edit the electric guitars and you had 2 channels for the electric guitars you can highlight both of the channels and then change the volume, panning, plug ins so they could be the same. 

6. You can change between mono and stereo, mono is one general sound in one, and stereo is the track split to 2 ears left and right. 

Question 4: What does a DI box actually do? What other benefits are there in using DI boxes in the studio?

A DI box is used to convert types of audio signal to microphone level. If you plugged an instrument straight into a mixer in a microphone level input, it would be very distorted. The reason you would use a DI box in the studio is so it does not distort when it is plugged into the mixer. The other reason why it is helpful, an input and output is not the only I.O. 

The DI box is used to connect the instruments such as the: guitar, bass, keyboard, drums and many more to the DI box to record and hear that instrument. You could either connect a microphone and record the specific instrument, by this means some instruments you cant connect a jack lead, you would have to use a microphone, so for the drums you would have to mic it up and connect all the jack leads from the microphones to the DI box. The DI box is also used to Connect a jack lead from the instrument to the DI box so you would only hear the instrument and not pick up any back ground noise, like for example if you were recording with other instruments, because you connected the jack lead from the DI box to the instrument you would only hear that instrument. This method would apply to guitars, Keyboards, Vocal Microphone. 

Question 5: If you were wanting to source a simple audio interface for your computer/laptop in order to record a guitar and a vocal at the same time, what main features would it need to have?

Give 2 real-world examples of audio interfaces that would be suitable for this. 

1. The Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Audio Interfaces USB - The reason why this audio interface would be ideal for simple recording, is because it is very small, cheap and very strong due to its aluminium body. The features it has allows you to record both vocals and guitars, Because it has 2 out USB recording interfaces. It is also compatible with every major DAWs and it would work with both PC and macbook. As well as a USB input you have a jack input as well, which means you can record both guitar and vocals at the same time without latency. 

2. The Lexicon Alpha Studio USB Audio Interface - Has a stereo line input for keyboards, drum machines or analog output. It has an active balanced input and it expects either balanced or unbalanced signal. 
If you wanted to use an electric guitar or bass, there is a front panel input. There is a separate microphone line level input that has individual peak indicators. To balance an audio source there is a monitor mix control, which controls between the live input and the playback level. When your in the middle of recording you can switch to stereo or mono high-powered headphone. You do not need a power supply, you can record on your laptop where ever you are. 

Major Music Project (Unit 16) - Budget

A gig took place on the 20th of May, we made a graph of our budget:

In the graph we put down how many tickets we sold, how much the tickets were and how much we made from it. We also put down how much we gave to the head line act, the supporting act, the sound engineer, lighting engineer and box office staff. There is also how much we spent on chalk and hooks. Then from subtracting all these costs we spent and gave we got our calculated profit. 

We gave the head line act the most money which was £100 because they are the headline act they had most of their fans coming to see them which meant more tickets being sold. They put in a lot of work, time, rehearsals and most time performing, so they deserve the most amount of money. But main reason is because they are the main act of the night and are performing a lot.

£50 went to the supporting act, half what the head act got because they are the support act and they would be bringing less fans and less fans would be coming because they are the supporting act. They sold a lot of merchandise so that added to their profit. 

We decided to give the sound engineer and lighting engineer a fair amount which was £30 because they both have a fairly important role to the gig, the sound is very important because people need to enjoy the sound quality and be able to survive their ears when they leave. The lighting gives a atmosphere to the performance and makes people see the performers so this is as important as the sound engineer because if the sound engineer is doing a good job in making the sound good, but if you cant see the performers people would not understand what is going on and not enjoy as much. 

The box office staff has the easiest job out of everyone because all they have to do is collect money, look at the list to see the right people are getting sold the right price, give the tickets and stamp people, and obviously keep the money safe. So that is why we decided to give them the amount £20, it is a fair amount and reasonable.

With all these payments being made and after everything we spent on the chalk and the hooks we managed to make a very good amount of profit which was £101.66. We also had a bar set up and sold our drinks so on top of the £101.66 we got more from the bar. So it all turned out very well and everyone got fair amounts of money and deserved the right amount of money due to their roles and amount of work put in. 

Major Music Project (Unit 16) - Roles

To make this event successful there was a lot of planning involved, a lot of roles to be assigned and a lot of patience and time. 

This was our final gig so we had to make everything work well and make sure we were going to make the event very successful.

We first had to list the areas and what role each person is going to take, because in order to make this event successful we have to work as a team.

These are the areas we had to cover:

• Social Media
• Artwork (Poster/Flyer)
• Visuals
• Strategic Marketing
• Press/PR
• Tech Spec
• Sound
• Lighting

Social Media - First of all social media is really important because you want a lot of people to come depending on the capacity and you want to make as much money as possible. So in order for us to get the word out about the gig we assigned 2 people in our class that had the largest social ratings. So we chose caitlyn and la-shaun who have a lot of followers on twitter and a lot of friends on facebook. The date was already chosen with the college so once we knew the date and time the first thing they were assigned to do was create a facebook page, most people go on facebook these days it is a very famous social website and its a good place to create the event page for the gig and invite all of our friends, so once caitlyn and la-shaun invited us to the event page we could invite all our friends as well to make a big number of invites. The event page is so good for this event because on the event page caitlyn and la-shaun will put the date and time, how much it will be for entry, the address and any information that is necessary. Once the event page is created and everyone is invited to it, building up to the event all of us can post pictures and status every day or as much as possible to get people to notice and maybe take interest. Twitter is a very good social media website to get the word out, caitlyn and la-shaun already have loads of followers so if they post statuses and hashtag the event ‘PLAYBACK’ people will click on it and all other tweets with that hashtag will be there. 

The details that was put on the event page and the poster and flyers is:

PLAYBACK (COVER PHOTO IS THE POSTER/FLYER)

Wedesday 28th May

6:00pm

Westminster Kingsway College

211 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1X8RA

Price -

Adult: £4

Children: £2

There was a 2:00pm performance but that was just for college students and staff. So the information we put on the facebook page was for the evening performance which started at 18:00pm. But on the posters and flyers we put both 14:00pm and 18:00pm because we gave out the flyers around college and put the posters up around college. 

Artwork - The artwork includes the posters and flyers this is part of the promotion so we assigned Bianca to do the artwork because she has previous experience in making posters and flyers and designing them and from previous gigs we did with the college she designed our posters and flyers so we knew we could rely on her. Demver assisted her with the artwork, and once everything was done we printed posters and flyers because without the posters and flyers we would not get the most people we could get, the posters and flyers helps get people in the college come along to the event, there is loads of people attending in the college so the posters and flyers would attract their attention and because it is in the building they can go easily with no problem. 

There was lots of changes with the artwork:

This was the first artwork we got from Bianca

Then donavon was posting a countdown with the artwork and the amount of days left on the artwork on his facebook page and the event page.

We then figured out that bianca put the wrong time for the evening time she put 9:00pm instead of 6:00pm. So she changed it and we had to print all over again and re post on the social media websites we posted the picture on.

Visuals - Our next job was random but in a way connected to the event, because our event was called ‘Playback’ I came up with an idea to make a video of memories in the college and take new footage of our second year of college. Because I have had a lot of experience making videos for events and for family and friends and past schools, I thought it would be nice to do the same for the college and play it at our last gig. Everyone liked the idea so all I had to do was gather old footage of college memories into one folder and then borrow the college video camera and take footage of everyone rehearsing and having fun in college. At first the college wanted me to make a video footage and they would put the music to it, but then it turned out when they gave me the music I made the footage to the music because it made more sense. The teachers made a track of everyones songs put together to make the video more emotional and to the point that were leaving and this is our last gig. 

Here is footage without the music


*WILL NOT LET ME UPLOAD*

Here is the re made version with the music and the final version

*WILL NOT LET ME UPLOAD

Strategic Marketing - Now donavon and yemisi were in charge of this, strategic marketing is people who find other ways to promote the event, they would not do what the social media do and use most social media sites to spread the word, they would use the social sites but physically talk to their friends or whoever they want to attend and ask people to share the event page or the picture of the flyer, ask their friends to spread the word to their friends and family and send them the flyer. Another thing they would do is tell their friends and family with word of mouth and we had loads of gigs in may so when we found out about playback and the exact day and time, and the facebook page was up, they told people in one of our previous gigs which happened 2 weeks before, this was a good idea because using all these previous gigs building up to the actual event and telling people about the upcoming event and create new contacts etc. Because they are already at a gig and the performers who were performing were going to perform in playback, if they enjoyed the entertainment and performance they might consider coming back to the next event in this case it was playback. Another thing donavon did was make a countdown for the build up till the event. 

Here is one of the pictures he posted

He also posted pictures of us rehearsing with the countdown on the picture

Press/PR - Garnett was in charge of this role, he already had experience from music and industry assignments and that is what he concentrates on and what he wants to have a career in. Most of the roles was applied to people who already had experience and to people who are keen and 100% motivated to take the role on. We picked the assigned roles carefully and with a lot of thought and logic. Now the point of the press/PR is that someone who was garnett has to write a press release which is basically talking about the event and sending the article to the press and hoping it would catch their attention enough to write about the event and get us a larger audience. Without the press release and without the press we would get a smaller audience then what we could  of got with the press.

Tech Spec - Andre and Shenice were in charge of this role, their job is to make sure all the equipment is working okay, sounding okay, making sure everything is placed right on the day, finding out what equipment everyone needs and making sure it is there at the gig. Their main job is to get the best jack leads, amps, drum equipment, microphones and all the instruments or other equipment. They have to make sure instruments are in tune and that everything is placed right. They are the reason everything sounds in tune and good quality because they had to make sure all the equipment, leads and amps and etc were in good condition. 

Sound - We had sound engineers that were not part of our team, they are part of production course, but they helped the sound sound amazing. 

Lighting - Demver was in charge of the lighting with darlene assisting him. The lighting is very important because it gives the mood and the atmosphere to the performance and depending on the song and type of performance you have to put the right lighting. If someone was performing a really emotional and sad song you would see the lights all colourful and changing and going all crazy, it would be a simple lighting that would suit the song, maybe a specific colour and it would be dimmed and quite dull. So demver had to go round and asking all the performers about their songs and what vibe they want their song to be like, finding out what style of song, sad or upbeat etc. Once demver found all of this out he was not the one to actually work the lights he just had to gather the information with darlene assisting him and helping him out with asking people and finding information and giving the information to the lighting person. 

I generally feel that playback was very successful, we had a very good amount of audience it felt like the place was filled up, everyone seemed to enjoy the night and the performances and responded very positively by singing along, dancing along and even interacting with us. The sound was good there was no problems, everyone including the performers had fun, it was just a very good atmosphere, everyone left in a good mood with a smile on their face. Seeing that response means that everyone had a good time and enjoyed the performance and enjoyed themselves. We were all organised and rehearsed enough times so we knew what we were doing, everything felt scheduled and no one was really stressed out only if they were nervous. I feel that we could have done more with the promoting by putting up posters outside of college because only putting it up in college is not promising it is promising because it is in the college and anyone can show up easily, and there is a lot of people in the music course and we all have lots of friends around the college. But most people in college are probably tired and have their revision and work so it would of been good to publish around the area. 

Video Killed The Radio Star (RE-DO)

Music has been evolving hugely in the past 70 or less decades. The constant development of technology is a big help to this. The generation now is so different to how the generation of music used to be you would not be able to believe it. It is how people would make music and how people would listen to it, how people would publish their music and how people would buy their music.

Now people would listen to music on their smart phone or youtube before they did not have enough technology at the time to be able to do this, so before they would listen to music on a radio or a cassette or on a vinyl record. You would not find much vinyl records being sold these days, they are still being sold but because people do not usually use it you would have to go to the right place to buy the vinyl record it would be quite expensive comparing to modern discs people sell now a days. Even when a DJ was created they used to use vinyl records to DJ but now it is more common to use a software with a desk that has mini vinyls.

Everything is mostly done by the internet now depending on the country, most countries have good connections to the internet but in some countries it is very hard to get internet. So because of such common use of the internet people buy their music online like on ITUNES which is where you would usually turn to, or on a website. HMV was a very big company for buying discs and movies but because people get everything online due to the improvement of technology HMV is quite low on business and a lot of them have been shut down. You would find a huge HMV in a high street because a lot of people shop there and walk around the high street. HMV also shut down because of how good technology has gotten everything is cheaper to run through the internet.

Music used to be more technical back then, by this I mean back then music had to sound very good and you had to run through a record label to use their studio and make high quality music. It was not so easy to make music like it is now where you see everyone building there own home studios and music equipment. This is because back then money was tight and people could not afford to get a home studio or spend money on these things. If you wanted to record an album you had to go to a record label and use their recording studios, use them to get signed and if you had a special and unique talent they would sign you and from there they would help with studio time and promotion. Artist's used to promote themselves via the radio, and the radio was connected with the record labels back then too because of all the equipment they built and studios.

Now a days music is not so technical like it used to be, it looks like people are using their image to promote themselves and get recognition. There have been cases with very bad singers but were so beautiful or eye catching to the public they would have to add serious auto tune and correction to their voice on the track. So the album would sell by their image, and now a days because of technology like T.V, internet, social media that have been developed over the years, people can get influenced buy the image from all the adverts on T.V, websites and pictures on social media and keeping the old days live on, using the radio to play your music and get the word out.

Vinyls held very little amount of music to start with and over the years they were able to make vinyls that fitted longer amount of music. Then cassettes were made so people could go buy their tapes and carry the cassettes around, they were easy to carry at the time and gave people the chance to listen to their music while travelling because vinyl is functioned with a record player which you can not carry around because they are big enough not to be able to carry around and are pretty heavy and delicate.
As technology was getting better and better after cassettes disc players were made because from vinyl records discs was made. After disc players mp3's were made because the internet was made and you could start downloading your music onto a device. Where we get to now you can purchase an ipod which lets you fit 1000's of songs and then the iphone was made where you can use your phone and keep music on there too. Back then there was still hand home phones and then over time phones went from brick phones to iphones.

Here is a vinyl record.

Here is what you would use to function the vinyl record, it is called a record player. 

More developed version of a record player. 

More updated version. 

More updated version.

Here are cassettes that were made after the vinyl record players.

Cassette Players.

This is what the radios looked like where people would listen to music on. 

You would see a lot of radios like this in the 1990's.

CD Players/CD'S

Modern CD Player.

Modern Radio is usually listened to in your car or online but in rare cases this is what the radio cassettes look like now. 

This is a very modern example.

But people can still use these radio cassettes. 

But it is common for people to listen to radio in their car. 

or 

So even though T.V already existed when music was around artist started exploring and started making music visual and making videos to their song's to either show themselves or show a story. 

This is the first ever music video made and the title of the song sais it all. 

So from everyone listening to radio the visual side of music increased hugely and very fast, people till now are very interested in watching the music video of songs and it is a common aspect of the music industry now. People still listen to radio and download songs onto their mp3's, cassettes, smart phones etc, but if an artist releases a single the audience will now automatically wait to see the music video. 

Here is a recent and modern music video it shows how the band used the visuals to show the story of their song. You can see how the band is performing to show themselves and promote themselves and at the same time the acting going on. 

This is where MTV came along, MTV is a huge company for showing music videos, and now there is loads of music channels that show only music videos. Over the years MTV started showing programs to give dynamic to the channel and also because people can easily go on youtube and watch all the music videos whenever they want and how many times they want. But this is very recently, MTV used to only be adverts and music videos. 

In 1999 the business for music was falling meaning the money was not being made as much because the generation developed so much, 'NAPSTER' was created, Napster was a downloading site where artists would release their music and Napster was able to let people download it for free. Before this people would illegally pirate CD copies of the albums and sell them illegally or give them out for free. So from this action being made the artists and the people who get their share with them would lose on lots of money. On Napster MP3 files was easy to download and in the 2000's sites like bears share, U-torrent and lime wire, there was loads of other ones but these were fairly famous and were going viral but these sites have been shut down because they got so famous and well known. U-torrent is still up but is hidden well. These sites were similar to Napster, you would search a song and loads of different download versions would come up, so you would look for the fastest and best quality download then download it, and since Napster was created in 1999 this went viral and the music industry sales were decreasing! Things changed when ITUNES was created, ITUNES is still a very famous legal music downloader, you can download music videos and films and lots of other media stuff, but it is very well known for music. ITUNES is where most people would turn to for music and albums but it was bad for music shops that were well known too like HMV, now because of the huge increase of internet use for everything HMV is rarely seen, they are only still open on high streets or some shopping centres. It is bad because people from then till now got used to downloading legally on ITUNES and knew they did not have to waste time to go to the shop and buy the CD or whatever item. 

It was told that Napster was the end to the music album era. Everything was becoming more and more digital and nearly only digital but it is not the case and never was but the generation from then and now people rely on digital use to buy things online more then going to a shop and buying something, this can be applied for clothes, equipment anything you can think of. 

Because ITUNES was created the sales decreased hugely, the digital way of downloading and buying music took over the physical way of buying music. The physical way of buying music is still fairly popular, but decreasing on sales day by day. The success of digital use for music has grown so much, it is unbeatable. Now everything can be done online, if you cannot be bothered to go shopping for some new tops, all you have to do is go onto the shops website and buy it online and either get it delivered or go pick it up at the shop. With music you could be exploring youtube and your friend sends you a song and you must get it right away, this could be at 1:00am and the shops are closed at this time, so all you have to do is go onto ITUNES and click buy and boom you have it in seconds. Or someone with no money on them, could find a illegal music site and download it. But these illegal sites are getting shut down over time, it can actually be hard to find somewhere to download a song for free and with good quality. Youtube is a huge site for music videos and general videos, a clever idea has been created where you can actually convert music from a youtube video into a mp3 file and transfer it to your ITUNES. This shows how much technology has become so clever and over powering, because of things like this, is why the music industry is losing out on a lot of money. So the idea of 'I do not need to buy this, I can just download it for free easily' Is costing the music industry. 

It is not 100% fun living as a artist, an artist is constantly being watched, when they eat, getting into a new relationship, divorce, new child, bad dress sense, falling over accepting a grammy, partying with another artist or movie start. It all gets into the news, on the radio, EVERYWHERE! Once the word is out, it has gone viral for the whole world to see in only a few hours or a day. It could take longer but most of the time, it does not take long for most of the world to let each other know about recent news about a celebrity. The digital has evolved so much, blogs and etc were created for journalists and paparazzi to post constant news about celebs which gain them lots of money. So all of this meant people were not interested in the artist and their music alone, but now everything they do. Artist's have become brands and trends, you mention their name in your post you will most likely get lots of strangers commenting and liking. Big companies and their brands would use a celebrity artist to promote their product or brand, to get their product and brand well known and trending, this will make the artist money and the company recognition and money. 

Cheryl Cole Promoting L'OREAL Hair colour product in this advert.

This is my friend who has been working in the industry and getting herself out there, she has written a song for the boohoo clothes site advert. She is not in the video but she is singing, this will get her money, recognition and contacts. 

Adriana lima victoria's secret angel model promoting the car KIA in this advert, which is also released in the same period of time as the world cup, she is from brazil and most people know that so she talks about the football which is what relates to the advert. 

Famous footballers advertising nike football boots. 

Even though adriana lima who is a model and the footballers advert is not music related, they are good examples of how their fame and image advertises these products and brands. 

Because these big artists are the image of the brands and promotion, they use these images or videos to show of to their fans to catch attention, when their fans see this they most probably would want the product and get the word out to their friends and families and post it themselves. Some people admire these artist and would just post the promotion to say how good they look and how amazing they are which would attract peoples attention. 

Huge music festivals and shows would have brands being sponsored with their event, download is sponsored by redbull. 

All of these brands are being sponsored by the reading music festival, which is a huge music festival that a lot of people talk about and plan on going every year.

Summertime ball is sponsored by CAPITAL FM which is a very well known radio station.

Singles used to be sold by vinyl, cassette tapes and an old era of CD's, now there is no such things, most singles are sold on ITUNES. You can buy vinyls and tapes but of old copies that are left over, it is rare to find these purchases. Vinyls and tapes can still be made but not very much, because it would be a waste of time and money to make these, because people are more interested in buying everything online and listen to their music on their smart phones, or apple ipods, or mp3 players.

Record labels were not only effected by the huge increase of illegal download, record labels also made their money from people using their studios. Back then the only way you could record your songs and create an album or single, was going to a record label. Now because of the huge increase of technology and how clever it has become, people can make music at home and do not have to be sound engineers, or trained producers. Softwares have been created like: Logic Pro, Pro tools, garage band and many more. On these softwares is where you can create sounds and make a full track with the samples already inputed in the software. This is what causes people to think that they do not need to waste money to go to a recording studio, all they need to do is purchase a laptop with a software, a few extra equipment and they can become independent artist's and make music for free, whenever they want and how much they want. This is how record labels have decreased in sales. Some artists think professional and save some money to go to a professional recording studio, but most artists do it all at home. These softwares have created a tool that can make your voice sound better and auto-tuned, so someone can be a very average singer and use this tool to sound good and in key.
Back then there was no such thing as digital recording, there was analog recording where its recorded physically with a disk. Recording back then was limited so the artist had to know what they were doing, because they could not record and re record like you can do now with a digital recording.

Here are examples of analog recording and comparing analog to digital recordings.

Video Killed The Radio Star

The music industry is such a huge industry there is so much going on such as: the business side, technology side, royalties, sponsors, music videos, concerts, signings, studio time, music making and creating and there is countless of things that are involved in the music industry. The music industry has been around for decades, but from disco time that is when the music industry exploded with evolution. Disco influenced everything that is happening to today, influenced how people think, dress, act, speak and live. How is this possible? well from the olden times when music was created, it was not like now where we have so much technology to support us, they had limited equipment and help for the music industry, its like everything big started somewhere small. So if you would look back at how the music industry was when it was first created, the equipment they used we would find extremely strange and tricky. When the music industry was first created people would listen to music through concerts, small concerts, and people would have to spread the word throughout the city. After a while when technology improved people could listen to the music through the radio, and could buy the music in hand on a tape or a record (Discs at their time, huge black discs).

TECHNOLOGY/INDUSTRY

Technology is getting so advanced so quickly and there is so much evolution for technology. With the music industry now in this generation technology is what helps us and influences us to make music HOW? Now that we have all: TV'S, radios, concerts, social media like: facebook, youtube, soundcloud, twitter etc. All of these named are ways of someone gaining interest in the music industry and slowly would develop their own talent and become experienced. Example from a very young age the age where you can understand things, you would either be influenced by what your family would tell you, or watch something on T.V, listen to something in the radio, From growing up as a child interested in all these media acts involved with music you would decide to want to be apart of it, so if someone would want to be an artist, they would to their specific interest either purchase a guitar and get lessons or teach themselves and keep practicing, now a days you have so much technology you can teach yourself how to play an instrument or do anything by simply searching online or searching on youtube where people actually take their time to make a video for other people to learn what they know how to do. This is how technology is so strong in the world itself, but in the music industry it is hugely needed. When someone knows they want to have a career in the music industry they would need to go to lessons, if they would want to sing anything or cover anything they would need to search online the backing track's and lyrics. If someone wanted to create their own song they would need to buy a software that specialises in music like: LOGIC PRO. You can go take a course in college then move on to take a course in university, and from making connections through these schools, working with people can build your fan base, build your knowledge and share your experience with others and have fun. I personally would watch a youtube video or music video on T.V of someone performing and if i liked the specific song or the artists voice i would get influenced to write a song. The process of writing a song would be getting on the keyboard creating some chords, creating a melody line and then some lyrics along with it, once i have the whole song structure i move on to logic pro onto my laptop and create everything on there and then i would go to college and socialise with production students to mix my song for me and record my vocals so it could sound as professional is it could be. From this process it would go from a song to another and then i could create a e.p and an album. There is more though, you would have to be connected to facebook, youtube, twitter, instagram, soundcloud, all of these sites will help you build your fan base and show people what you are doing and it is a good way to express yourself and show yourself as an artist and that as an artist you are confident and that you want people to hear your songs. So if i got inspired from someone on youtube performing their songs and inspired me with their messages in their songs, once i do all of it i would hope to inspire others.
In the olden times before disco was created they never had this chance to have all these social networks and have number of technology, they hand to everything much differently and harder and longer, so when disco came about disco was when protest was the word of the world, everyone was expressing their feelings for freedom, music became more free and crazy and spontaneous and then 'video killed the radio star' was the first ever music video to be made, so camera were becoming more advanced, people were becoming more creative by the second, it was an explosion and all thanks to disco the music industry would not the way it is now, the way people act is all thanks to disco. Only because in disco they expressed themselves and made the world believe that everyone has a right to speak, to be whoever they want, dress the way they want, do what they want. But there is still limitations, because without law this world would be all over the place. But from the influence of disco the music industry now is becoming far from music but just about image and money. The music industry now you see music videos with women not wearing very much clothes, women and men flirting with each other, the songs would be talking about getting a girl or boy, wanting sexual pleasure, being cheated on, and some songs are just over crazy. Because over time people do not care, they use music and the industry that comes with it to do what they want and show a certain image to influence others to be like them or to change opinions etc.

Here is 2 examples. 1 from disco and the other from now.

EXAMPLE 1:

 You can see here how the footage looks older then the footage you would see now. They are dressed differently, the women more classy, and if you compare this video to the next example you will see how now artists are careless and go to extreme.

EXAMPLE 2:

You can see in this video miley cyrus is naked on a cannon call, and licks the hammer and smashes the walls with the hammer, so you can see how extreme the industry has become, she is expressing a heartbreak, but why be naked? She is careless and is trying to be spontaneous. Behind the scenes she was an Innocent disney character so this was a way to show people she is a adult now and that she can be one and she wants people to stop seeing her as a child disney star. So this was her way to get people to be shocked and get people talking and posting the video. She has achieved what she wanted but with a lot of negativity. This was all influence from disco because there was scenes like this in disco time where women decided to dress more revealing and artists would make their album covers of them naked in their case it was a women expressing through the image of sexual pleasure and being a independent woman. Technology through music videos and photo shoots and interviews and radio broadcasts and TV programs, all of these things are ways to keep people interested and updated and to show their protest or expression. Music videos would help and artist or band show their story of their song through the video and to explain the song through the video. Photo shoots are to promote the artists with pictures, put their pictures online on their pages and put their pictures on their album covers etc.

Here is an example of a typical music video and song you would expect from this generation:

It is a typical thing to see in the music industry now as you can see and hear in this video, how they are talking about getting someone and partying with them, in the video you can see a women showing herself off in front of the guy along with not wearing much for example the short dress, or boobs hanging out etc, you can see the guy pouring alcohol, this shows how alcohol influences a lot of these actions to be made and in the disco time people went crazy and started drinking at the clubs all the time and taking drugs so from that it developed and now it is a normal thing to people, like a hobby or something that gets everyone together.

Here is an example of an artist performing their protest song through a music video and a song.

This is a perfect example, everything they are saying in the song is about the world and the bad things that are happening that should not be happening like war, and drugs people are taking, violence and killings, bullying, and the song cant express enough how sometimes this world is missing some love. And they talk about how the media is become unnecessary and censored for younger's not to be able to see. Example porn. You can see them promoting their protest of a question mark, asking where is the love, this is inspiring and shows respect to the world and how they want to make a difference.

BUSINESS (In the music industry)

The business side of the music industry involves, the record labelling of an artist, promotion, advertisement, sponsors, films using artists songs, concerts and merchandise that comes with it. Buying music. It went from buying music in a store on a tape or record to downloading online illegally or legally. Now people usually buy their music on itunes, there is spotify where you can listen to music for free but then you have to pay for it like on itunes, it does look similar to itunes. Usually people use youtube to search their songs along with music videos. At concerts the tickets makes the artist and the manager and other people with shares money and the merchandise makes them money too. when a director decides to use an artists song on their film the artist gets royalties for it and gets the money for it. Every time an artists song gets played on a radio or TV along with the music video it makes them money. There has always been massive music festivals such as: itunes, download, summertime ball and many more. These events are sponsored by brands like red bull is a huge company that sponsors countless amount of festivals and coke sponsors. Not only does the company's make funny, through the connections of red bull and coke being so famous people get attracted to these events which the more people come the more money everyone makes. There is royalties so everyone gets a share.

Now a days people try to start something and try to get everyone to trend it and get everyone knowing it to get it famous and make them money. So certain people pay artists to promote their products or company or what ever it is in their music video and relate to it in everything they do so they always talk about it in their behind the scene posts etc. So when the artist does this for the company they make money for it and from all the fame the artist gained the company makes money too because all the fans of the artist will want to have what they have or do what they do and go to the company and follow the artist.

Here is an example of an artist sponsoring and promoting in their music video.

Now here shakira is singing about the world cup, the world cup is a huge deal to the world and most of the world gets involved, in this music video you can see brands like Adidas and other brands but it is just because those brands are being branded in the stadium. But what shakira is talking about in the song is the world cup and the pressure of the world cup and everything they are feeling. She is talking about Africa because the world cup was placed in Africa. The video of all the footballers that played playing and showing all their emotions is just promoting the world cup, and because shakira at this point was very famous she was promoting the world cup and being apart of it.

Here is an example of cheryl cole a famous artist promoting loriel and hair product.

You can see she is dancing and modelling for the product, this gets the product very well known because cheryl cole is already well known so it attracts people. 

Brands and products know that by letting a artist promote their products or brand it will increase their finance by a huge amount and probably very quickly, they even let the artist's have the products or brands or clothes etc for free and the artist would have to wear or show their product in a music video or advert, on their tour concert. This gets the brand or product trending.

Here is an example of jessie J promoting nike shoes:

She went and posted loads of pictures of herself on instagram wearing the nike trainers, of the nike trainers and showing loads of quotes, she did this hunt for her fans to come look for her event with a clue on her instagram and they would have to be a step ahead and catch up so she could give them a free pair of the trainers she was branding. By doing this she is getting money and also the brand is getting noticed and credit and because jessie j is wearing these trainers and putting on a hunt, the hunt makes the fans want to meet her and who doesnt want free trainers because trainers are very expensive so the fans go crazy trying to get the trainers. But all of this fuss and promotion gives the brand a lot of attention. 

Because the music industry is becoming more about image the music is really bad and record labels do not get as much income because even though artists record their songs with their studios, yes they get income for the space usage, but all the discs being made of sell, people dont really buy discs they buy music online so because of this, they will not get much income.

Censorship In Music (Final Hand In)

Examine:

- Politics

- Technology

- Censorship on music making and consumption in iran and iraq

- Examine music in middle east.

- Examine the effect on music making and creation

- Take technology to account

- Compare to situation in UK

- What is the function of music in both societies? (what role does music play in the society, how does it effect the society and what does it do to society).

- How has political leadership affected musicians, and how has it effected general music listeners in the middle east. 

- How did things change after the revolution in the middle east

- What do you think might happen under the new leadership.

Intro:

The politics in Iran and Iraq compared to the politics here in the UK are very different. I will analyse how life is in Iran and Iraq is and the life in the UK. Both countries politics are very different, how?

UK:
In the UK the life is quite laid back, we have the freedom to make any career we want happen, and we have the government to allow us to study whatever we want with schools, colleges and universities. But we have to to take our GCSE'S, that is the only exception, the GCSE'S in the UK is very important and every child has to study in school for many years till they get to the age where they are ready to take it and when they have to take it. Usually teenagers take their GCSE'S when they get to the last year of secondary school 'Year 11', when they are the age of 15-16. The process is a child joins primary school at around the age of 5 or older and they get introduced to different subjects but the main subjects is maths,English and science, so they study these three subjects joined with other subjects, and as years go by the work gets harder and the knowledge gets more advanced. When a child finishes primary school at the age of around 10/11 they then have to move on to secondary school, just before they turn into a teenager, and then in secondary school they have to really study maths, English and science to a high level so by the time they get to year 11 then can take their GCSE'S and get the best grades they can. The GCSE'S are forced to be taken because the knowledge the children get as they grow up can help them with future jobs. After a teenager finishes secondary school they get to move on to college to study a course of their choice so they can start studying for their career in that course. But the GCSE'S will help them get into colleges. After college they have a choice to move on to universities, but universities are very hard to get into, depending on your grades and course you have to have the right grades and experience to be able to get into a good university. The reason how children/teenagers have the freedom to do this process is because the government helps with finance so they can go ahead and study. But most of the time people have to pay but the government helps the student with finance if they have trouble paying.

The politics in the UK give children and teenagers the freedom to study and to live a happy life, so with the freedom they get, and the studies they get, over the years they will come to grips what career they would like to achieve. For example I decided to take music as my course for college, I knew I wanted to do music because over the years from a child to a teenager, I always had the freedom to sing and perform musical theatre shows, so with that experience I knew I wanted to explore music and thanks to the government I had the freedom to go ahead with this career. I have the freedom to play music whenever I want, I get to experience performing at many different venues, Watching different styles of genres perform at gigs in public venues. I also get to practice at home, and attend lessons for my musical instruments. In the UK we get many professional and fast working technology that helps us with research. As long as you can afford the internet and you sign up for a contract, your internet is unlimited and it works really fast. Here in the UK we have lots of public shops where we can purchase musical instruments so we can buy for ourselves to practice at home, or to purchase for a school/university of music. Where you find schools for music you will find many technology for music. Going deeper in music and going into music production like producing, recording artist's, DJ-ing, you can find lots of shops or online purchases to purchase the technology you need in able to go ahead with music performance or music production/technology. The amount of help and technology we have here in the UK is countless. And to this day the technology develops, even as I write this. Religion in the UK is not a problem and we do not force people to believe in any religion. The government here is open to it and let people have the freedom to live with their religion and open up churches or synagouges or mosks for people to attend at and invite people to come in to them. Let people open shops for their religion where people can purchase religious items and clothes etc. There is countless religions and the government does not judge any of them and lets them live their life in piece. The security here is not over the top, they let people live in a calm atmosphere but if they see danger they approach it but they do not make a big deal where everyone has to panic, they approach the suspicion or crime in a professional and suitable manor. So that is how people in the UK can dress how they want and date who they want, go wherever they want at any time they want. But like the whole world should have is morals and limits. Because without morals and limits the world will be out of control. It is getting hard to get people to live calm and respectful lives, but school and educated and mature parents or youths can change that by teaching people as they grow up how to save the world from going out of control. And they can teach how to talk to people in a suitable manor, approach a place in a suitable manor and finally respect people for who they are and not judge people and let them be. Another thing I think is important to talk about, is how people in the UK can travel to other countries and even live there with suitable rights, in general it is not easy for someone to just automatically live wherever they want in the world, but with some money and rights they can move out of the UK freely without major problems. I think I have expressed enough how the life here in the UK is very straight forward and everyone can have a calm life in the way they want it but with limits.

Music wise all of us here in the UK have the freedom to practice with our bands at home or in a booked rehearsal space, We have easy access to technology to help us with the specific act we are practising for, and to help us with research or technology as in a laptop and internet for backing tracks and to play songs we can get inspired from etc. Here in the UK everyone can listen and play whatever music style they want. But if anything in a song is offensive to anyone or a big amount of people the government might consider to give a punishment or a warning. In the UK the social media is really big because everyone is connected to facebook and people use their iphone apps like instagram to post pictures. There is countless social media websites and apps people in the UK have easy access to. Even though everyone has a right to practise their music or musical act wherever they want, there is places where you have to consider rules of being noisey, rude and disrespectful to the venue or house hold. So you have to respect the rules being given and not be to loud, and most venues will close around a suitable time before midnight so people can go sleep, but if you have the right to stay at the venue then you have to respect people will be sleeping so they would have to practise in a suitable noise level. This applies to home rehearsals as well because at home if you are living with you parents you would have to respect their privacy and practise to a certain time and as it gets closer to the time you have to stop rehearsing, you would have to get quiter. There is some neighbours who will call the police if there is too much noise coming from the house over 22:00 or 23:00 pm at night. Music making in the UK is made in many sorts of ways, but the music that is made in the UK is either influenced on love, depression, sex, hate, strength and power and many more, but there is no label to what people have to write, they just make music about anything and whatever they want in whatever style they want.

Iran:

In Iran the life is different because the government is based on religion, and there was a revolution in the middle east, and life for people living there seemed to get harder after the revolution, all because of religion, the religion they believed in influenced how they felt about life, and what they needed to do in life. By this I am talking about social media, how people dress, where people go, difference between men and women became a problem, like women had be housewives while the men go and work hard, giving women not very much freedom, and judging them on what they do. Life in Iran is very restricted. When I found out about the social media in Iran I was overly shocked. In Iran what they watch on T.V, or what film they watch is very limited, you would not find people in Iran watching different genres of film like horror,comedy, Romantic films etc like you would see in the UK where they would watch loads of different genres of films. In Iran you would not find people having the choice to go cinema and have a choice of different genres of films to watch, in Iran they have to make films about specific things and need to go to the government in Iran to make sure it is okay to make and publish. The internet in Iran is very hard to get access to, if you would want to download music or anything else from the internet in Iran it would take hours or days, not like in the UK where it would take seconds, and maybe minuets, but in the UK downloading music or anything else would usually take seconds to download, depending on the internet you own. The point is internet in Iran is not something everyone has the freedom to turn to when they have free time, they need to be able to afford it, and even if you can afford the internet, the connection would be really hard to access it would not be fast, it would be worthless to use basically. This is because people in Iran have to even borrow internet from outside their area or country, this is because of the government, the internet does not interest them and they do not think it is useful, so they don't give easy access for people to buy it easily and use it easily like in the UK. The big suprise to me was how people in Iran are limited to make music, they can't make rock, jazz, pop, hip-hop music, they have to usually make music that is about religion and that suits the religion. They are really limited to what they have to play, and where they get to play. In Iran it is not like in the UK where they have the social media to influence people to make music in a specific genre, like is said the internet there is very limited. In Iran they do sell limited kind of instruments, but if anyone would hear you playing something usual to them and that is not in the style Iran allows, they would arrest you and either keep you in jail or to extremes kill you. People in the middle east are very violent and the war between Iran and Iraq influenced the violence. A story of a guy who lived in Iran and created a indie rock band, told us how he started as a bass player, but did not have the freedom to play bass whenever he wanted, he had to hide himself and find a safe place to practise his base, when the band was created they would find a place to rehearse but people lived underneath the rehearsal area, so they would have to get someone they trusted to keep a look out for them, so when the people downstairs would come back they would have to stop playing and pack everything just in case they would get caught and get arrested. They wanted to move out of the middle east to another country so they could start a music career, but unlike in the UK they could not escape easy, they needed to find someone who sold passports and visa's and leaving rights, but it cost a lot of money and was very hard to sort out, but once they were able to escape, the escape was very hard work and very scary because for people who are raised and are living in Iran it is not a choice to leave, they would need to be very rich and have the rights. Once the band left Iran they heard from a friend in Iran that if they came back they would be in big trouble, So he advised them to stay where they were and start a life there. A friend had to go back to Iran and he was arrested and was in A lot of trouble. As you can tell in Iran the life is very hard, and to make music and money or get any freedom is very very hard. The government are not as understanding as the government in the UK is. The government in Iran is very strict and are very stubborn. The religion is an influence with how they dress, how they talk and what career they have. Jobs in Iran is hard too, Iran is an overall poor country but there is the good areas but it is very rare.

The Joy Of Disco

The music industry is a really big deal in the world, because it influences society and everyone uses music for different reasons. Disco was a big evolution for the music industry and society, it changed peoples thoughts, the way people dress, the way people act and treat one another. I will now analyse how disco effected and changed the music industry hugely.

Before disco was created there was a big problem with homosexuals. Homosexuals was treated like unequals, lower class people, people bullied homosexuals and thought there was something horribly wrong with them. Homosexuals had enough of this behaviour against them and created the stonewall riots where they spoke out and was violent against the police raid. The stonewall riots was created in June 28th 1969 in the morning hours, the riots was outside of the stonewall inn in new york. The gay community went to extreme to start the riots, because they did not have access to places and they people looked down on them like they did not belong anywhere, if anyone was to figure out they were gay they would get arrested, in some countries they would threaten to kill gays and in extreme cases they would kill. Black people around this time were being treated unfairly too, the same with homosexuals they would be excluded from places and be looked down on. This is why they started the riots, they had ENOUGH!.

After the stonewall riots disco was created in the 1970's when homosexuals started getting their rights to live. Disco gave them the freedom to be who they are and express it with the music and dancing along to it, when disco was created it was not well known and was being played at not well known clubs where homosexuals and black people and people who felt similar to their emotions would meet up at these clubs and express themselves, dance together and have a good time. It was like their new home where they felt comfortable and felt freedom. Around this time there was so much limitation, the same gender could not be seen together dancing or having a unusual good time together. So at these unknown clubs boys and boys would be able to hang out together and dance and the same with girl on girl. Now a days it is normal for girls to dance with girls and boys to dance with boys but in a friendly way.

At the clubs everyone would dance together, take drugs together, and because disco music had influence of expressing yourself and talking about sexual pleasure, a lot of people of get on with each other on the dance floor or off the dance floor. There was drugs involved and people would sell drugs illegally and had to hide from the police in the clubs, but the clubs had a general freedom atmosphere. Literally people would go crazy and did not care about what happened around them.

Women before disco were limited to live how they wanted, their reputation was to stay at home clean up and cook food for their families, they did not have the same rights as men, where men could do what they like and say what they like, men had their rights for a lot of things where women didn't. Women started feeling limited and it was getting unfair. Disco gave them the freedom to open up, be more confident and express themselves, women artists in disco started singing about sexual pleasure, and to publish their album covers and music videos, they would take naked photo shoots or sexual poses with not much clothes, this helped their fame and gain them money because guys and even girls would get attracted to it and want more. Disco influenced everyone to be more sexual, seek sexual pleasure, dress with not much clothes and be very revealing.

Here is an example:

In this video you can see a perfect example of donna summer wearing a long safisticated, sexy dress and the song is talking about sexual pleasure and also the moans she adds in the songs are very extreme but empehsises the song and helps you have a good understand of the sexual vibe. The dancing is outgoing and funky and the backing dancers are 3 girls and 1 boy. The boy shows it doesnt matter what gender they can enjoy themselves and have fun. The costume they are wearing which is sequins shows the unusual and outrageous exploring in disco and gives the disco feel because disco is generally a funky and outrageous genere.

In this example The lyrics in this song is talking about the situation with the gay community and the riots, they are talking about they do not care who they are and what they are, they are surviving and they will stay alive. They are saying that you can do whatever but we will not be taken down. The clothes they are wearing are very not men like they are a bit unusal and tight which shows a big disco influence because the gay men in the community would wear tight clothes and wear unusal clothing a bit similar to what they are wearing in the video.

Here is my last example for music that was created when disco first started. In this video you can see they are confident, they are having fun, moving about, clapping, and having a good time. That is a good influence of disco, the way they are having fun and vibing to the song.

In the music industry now, what artists did when disco first came out, where they would sing about sexual pleasure and having fun and making explicit videos and photo shoots, still goes on today but you could say much more worse where it gets uncomfortable and over the top. Artists now a days got huge influence from disco, the confidence,being outrageous, over the top outfits, not wearing many clothes, singing about sexual pleasure and love which has not changed because everyone talks about love from a long time ago. Hip - hop came around a couple years after disco, and with hip - hop they had influence from disco but hip - hop tend to talk about violence, life and emotional stuff. But now in the music industry even though there is other different genre artist's, a majority of the music industry make happy, funky, sexual, club like songs. Songs where you want to dance, songs that influence you to be confident and outrageous and to be yourself, and sexual pleasure which seems to be getting worse and worse in the music industry. 

Here is some examples of recent artists who were simple and normal and then turned into sexual, outrageous over the top artists.

Old Rhianna (2005)

Here you can see it is a good feel song and video, rihanna showing of her stomach, and looks cute but sexy too. You can see she is getting everyone to come and dance with her, and the lyrics are 'Come mr DJ will you turn the music up', so it is a very good example of influence of disco, the vibe of good times and everyone dancing together at the club, this song and video is just way more modern, modern clothes, influence of hip - hop in the song. 

Rihanna NOW (2014):

You can see a HUGE difference from the first video, hardly any clothes on, looks like a stripper, grinding on the chair, other girls in bikinis dancing really sexually and pole dancing. The reason i chose this example is because you can see how from being a cute girl singing about dancing in a club and telling the DJ to turn up the music, has done to this video where she is half naked grinding, whining, other girls whining and pole dancing, it is explicit and way more mature from the old rihanna. You see how she decided to use her body and sexual dancing to sell her image for fame and money and ever since she started getting this over the top people got interested and it not only gained her fame it earned her a lot more money. So like in disco times where women started coming out of their shell and singing about sexual pleasure and selling their body for attention and money, is the same with rihanna starting off as a innocent and cute singer, to basically an artist singing about over the top, adult sexuality and money. 

There is so many more examples of artists who started of Innocent then started selling their bodies for fame and money and trying to change their reputation so people do not see them as a little girl and see them as a mature and grown women. Disco really influenced this idea because of how disco was expressing gay community and the gay community started feeling some freedom and confidence and expressing themselves and countless of ways. Then women started feeling okay i want to express myself too and open up and get some right, and over the years it started getting worse.

The politics now in the music industry do not really bother about what artists do, they allow things to happen but only if something is offensive they will do something about it, but now the generation is so free to a certain limit, the music industry just develops more and more and gets more free. From the politics in the the 19th century to now the development was from the politics being so strict and creating limitations for people where people felt worthless and limited to do things, people go judged easily, it caused fear and worry. But now in the 20th century the politics are more understanding and allow way more freedom. But it all depends on the country, some countries are still really strict and limited. Every country should have morals and restrictions but not to the point where people cant live their live calmly and freely. 

Even though now the music industry is more free and artist can more or less do what they like with their image, it still makes some audience feel insecure and want to be like them, so they would follow the steps of the famous artist to be like them, and some people thanks to the freedom of this generation really go to extremes. They wear nearly the same clothes as them, act like them and create a similar image so they don't feel worthless and insecure. That is the bad thing about what disco did, even though it created freedom and equal rights in this world, people now a days go to far, and dress outrageously, speak a certain rude matter, do all sorts of sexual things. It is getting bad to the point where even little girls from the age of 10 - 12 are getting influenced from their older sisters, or from just seeing images and films. 

Without disco the music and society we have today would never of been this way or even existed, disco changed the world so much with the rights to speak out, dress the way you want, look the way you want, speak the way you want, be in a relationship with whoever you want, sing the way you want, sing about whatever you want. Disco took away no limitations in how you live and how people are seen, they made images of people free and equal, they created a mutual feeling where everyone is equal and we all can get along and have a good time. Homosexuals and black people were the main things that allowed disco to be created, because both communities were excluded and were looked down on and were treated unequally, so disco made things equal and as disco grew the more people were interested and got influenced to do the same. 

The difference between punk in the UK to disco in the US, punk is known for outcasts and underdogs, the main and well known words for them, the outcasts would be known to have no job and be poor. The culture of punk and the music is dark, grunge, heavy, violent, aggressive, expressive, screamo. But disco was known to be fun, outgoing, unusual, flashy, over the top, sexy, sassy. Disco would be much more lighter and happier then punk which is heavy and aggressive. 

Without disco the idea of accepting someone for who they are and letting them do what they need to do would never exist. Religion plays a part in judging people and outcasting people, which is why the politics allowed both religious and non religious people live their live in piece and both live their life the way they want to. Disco made things fair between people, between the politics and the environment.