The History of Portable Music: Part 1
One of the many great things about music is that we can enjoy it anywhere\u2026I\u2019m talking about the recorded kind\u2026everyone has a smartphone, and every smartphone has the capability of playing music, whether you\u2019re listening to tracks stored in its memory or streaming something from a service like Spotify or apple music\u2026as long as your device has juice, you can enjoy listening to music anywhere you are\u2026\n\nTake this program, for example\u2026in its radio show form, it\u2019s being heard in homes, cars, offices, and workplaces either over the air or through a stream\u2026if you\u2019re listening to the podcast, you might have downloaded it to a phone, a tablet or a laptop which you can fire up anywhere at your convenience\u2026\n\nBut imagine for moment that you couldn\u2019t take your music with you\u2026if you wanted to listen to your favourite songs, you had to be present in a specific place and you couldn\u2019t move from it\u2026and that usually meant music inside the home\u2014or perhaps someplace with something like a jukebox\u2026\n\nThis might sound absolutely awful to you\u2026I mean, we\u2019re so used to conjuring up music whenever we want and wherever we are\u2026we take it with us everywhere\u2026it\u2019s hard to imagine life without that ability\u2026\n\nThat\u2019s the way it was for most of human history, though\u2026for centuries and centuries, the only way to make music portable was to bring a musical instrument with you and play it yourself\u2026\n\nThe idea of making recorded music portable\u2014at least in a way that is convenient, cheap, and reliable\u2014is more recent than you might think\u2026and it went through way more incarnations than you may realize\u2026\n\nWhat do you say we take a look at the history of portable music?...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices