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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The History of Alt-Rock: Chapter 10
Description: Once upon a time, all music was made mechanically...something had to be hit with a hand or a stick...or strummed or plucked...or air had to be forced over a reed or through a valve...Then along came electricity...it took a while, but electricity was tamed so that it could not only power new forms of musical instruments, but the energy itself could be made musical...By the beginning of the 1980s, the people of planet earth were most pleased at what they had accomplished...but in the background, some people knew...