Blog Post: Why Learning About Early Music History is Interesting to Me

 I always find old technologies very interesting. Whether it's the turning phone or the wall phone, I'm always intrigued by them and how they were used during my parent's younger days. This usually stems from the fact that TV shows and movies that I watch sometimes had these old techs, so it made me aware of them more often than not.

That is to say, when it comes to music, learning about the old days of listening to music such as the vinyl, Walkman, i-pod, boom box etc., was and still is fascinating to me. I've never had these technologies, but my parents did, and I would see these tools on the screen, so it created a sense of intrigue and curiosity to either witness one or learn about one's experience during the time that it was popular. I believe that looking at these tools and thinking about how they were important not only in their time of invention, but as a precursor to what we have now is interesting in its own right. Thinking back and investing myself in the history, or just facts about these old music technologies makes me appreciate them for what they did during their era and how there were hints to their evolution later down the line as technology continued to innovate and improve on the previous.