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Radio Outbreak
The invention of the radio is attributed to the Italian Guglielmo Marconi, but the instrument brings together a number of previous discoveries. In Brazil, the first transmission occurs in 1923, by Edgard Roquete Pinto and Henry Morize. Radio is the union of three technologies, the telegraphy, the cordless telephone and the transmission waves. -
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Emergence of rock
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Television Outbreak
Historically, the television boom was in the 1950s. Appliances broke into American homes and idols like Elvis Presley breathed the American Way of Life. Prior to that, in 1940, the first ever color broadcast was reported, and sports broadcasts and the first news programs began to gain prominence.
Even in the 1950s, thousands of people already had access to TV in the US, Europe and Asia and, to the delight of Brazilians, it landed here with the help of businessman Assis Chateaubriand -
Elvis Presley
White, young, charismatic, and talented, Elvis also innovated in his dancing that amazed the conservative portion of society. In addition to being a sex symbol and idol of the young American mass, Elvis became the image of the non-rules rocker. -
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1960s
As Eric Clapton quotes in his autobiography: “In those times beatniks, pre-hippies, it seemed like everything had to do with music. Drugs were rare, and even the drink was quite moderate ”(CLAPTON, 2007, p. 37).
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The Beatles
The Beatles were a rock band formed in the city of Liverpool (England) in 1956. They made worldwide success with their songs, especially in the 1960s. The success is due to the revolutionary style they have implanted in the music scene. They were songs with striking lyrics and strong guitar effects. The lyrics hit the young people hard, as they were contesting and revolutionary for the time. The visual style also revolutionized the music scene. -
Video games
Video games only entered the midst of entertainment in the mid-1970s, when it gained momentum in the world market and began to compete with the film industry as the most profitable form of entertainment. -
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1970s
Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and The Mamas were important names in the style of music that would become known as acid rock. British bands that had already been established in rock, such as the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, became representatives over the decade and, in addition to them, Cream, formed by guitarist Eric Clapton, appeared in England in 1966. The trio would be the main influence of bands called the progressive rock style, which gained great expression in the 1970s. -
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. Nicknamed the "King of Pop", he was considered one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century and one of the greatest artists of all time. -
Queen
After a rehearsal and testing marathon, they are able to record their debut album, “Queen”, better known as Queen I. From an agreement between record labels Trident and EMI, the band's first tour begins, opening a Mott the Hoople's concert, quickly stealing the scene, with the irreverence of Freddie.The next release - Queen II - in March 1974, won the 5th place among the most listened albums, thus leaving for their first tour as main attraction. -
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1980s
Highly influenced by acid rock, the band the Mutants titled their musical style psychedelic rock and can be considered the largest representative of Brazilian rock abroad in history, being active to this day with an alternative formation. All these artists ended up being censored in some way, like Roberto Carlos and the Mutantes, or even arrested, like Caetano Veloso, during the Military Dictatorship, which would be the main motivator of the protest of the Brazilian rock bands in 1980s. -
Internet
The world wide web and the internet hás transformed 21st century society in a way frequently compared tô the cultural,economic and social impact of the printing. -
Europe
Europe was one of the most successful rock bands of the 1980s and sold over four million albums in the United States and over 10 million albums worldwide. The band hit two Top 20 albums on the Billboard 200 chart (The Final Countdown and Out of This World). To date, Europe has sold over 30 million albums worldwide, making them the 2nd most successful Swedish group in history. -
Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)
The DCT algorithm was basis for the First practical vídeo coding format.Because it reduces the file size without losing the file and has images of a low quality. -
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1990s
Certainly 90s music will always be remembered, whether for the contagious melodies or the eccentric costumes of the artists. The youth culture is marked by MTV, grunge and a certain darkness, even coming from the biggest POP icons of the time. By the end of the decade, radio POP, produced by names like Max Martin and Darkchild, provided the conditions for what would come even in the next decade, while still experimental electronic music boomed by the end of the decade. -
Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG)
It was followed by more DCT-based video coding standards, mainly MPEG video formats. That were created so that there was a standardization of the files that were created. -
Joint Photographics Experts Group (JPEG)
JPEG lets you compress a file and get a reasonable quality, small size image. The relationship between image quality and size sets JPEG apart from other formats because it makes file storage and distribution easier. The compression level can be adjusted, and the more compressed the file in question, obviously its size will be smaller. However the image quality will also be lower. -
Britney Spears
Pop music in the 1990’s ended the decade with a bang that would reverberate throughout the world for many subsequent years. The woman who fired that attention-grabbing shot? Britney Jean Spears. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, the blonde bombshell who would take the music scene by storm first through her sensational chart success and then thanks to her tabloid-worthy antics got her first taste of show biz at the tender age of eight when she attended. -
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2000s
Many songs burst in people's lives in the 2000s. Pop and Rock were styles that stood out worldwide due to the numerous hits released. Whether in music genres, fashion and even behavior, the turn of the millennium has brought many changes around the world. -
Gotye
Besides singer Gotye is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. The artist is fluent in the Dutch and English languages. In his career the singer has released three albums through independent labels and a remix album featuring tracks from his early work. One of Gotye's biggest hits "Somebody That I Used To Know" became controversial after being touted as a plagiarism of a song by Brazilian musician Luiz Bonfá. -
Gnarls Barkley
Gnarls Barkley is a collaboration between DJ and producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) and singer and rapper Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway).
The band's name, Gnarls Barkley, came from friends, joining fictional celebrity names like Prince Gnarls and Bob Gnarley. When someone came up with the idea of Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse jotted the name down immediately and it was. Crazy was the first ever single to top the UK Singles Top, based solely on digital downloads as it was released online. -
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2010s
the 2010s were marked by striking and sticky songs with Justin bieber's '' Baby '' song that was played over and over on the radio and everyone knew it whether they wanted it or not.
