"This volume explores how music technology has evolved over time, focusing on the types of technologies that have influenced, affected, and in some cases suddenly changed the way we create, distribute, and consume music"-- Provided by publisher.

Chronology of Milestone Events -- An A-Z of Music Technology through the Years -- Amplification -- Analog Synthesizers -- Artificial Intelligence -- Auto-Tune -- Boomboxes -- Bose, Amar G. and the Bose Corporation -- Brass Instruments -- Cassette Tapes -- Collaboration Software -- Compact Discs (CDs) -- Computer-Composed Music -- Computer-Generated Music -- Desktop and Laptop Computers -- Digital Audio Tape (DAT) -- Digital Recording -- Digital Synthesizers -- Distortion -- DJ-ing -- Dolby Noise Reduction -- Drum Machines -- Edison Phonograph -- Effects Pedals -- 8-Track Tapes -- Electric Guitars -- Electrical Recording -- Electronic Keyboard Instruments -- Electronic Tuners -- Electronic Wind Instruments (EWI) -- 45-rpm Records -- GarageBand -- Generative Music -- Gramophones and Victrolas -- Headphones -- Instructional Software -- Internet Radio -- iPads and Other Tablets -- iPods and Other Portable Digital Music Players -- iTunes -- Jukeboxes -- Karaoke -- Leslie Speaker -- Loops -- Loudspeakers -- Mechanical Organs -- Mellotrons -- Metronomes -- Microphones -- MIDI -- Mixing Boards -- Moog Synthesizers -- Motion Picture Soundtracks -- MP3s -- MTV and Music Videos -- Multi-Track Recording -- Music Boxes -- Music Notation Software -- Music Printing with Moveable Type -- Musical Notation -- Muzak -- Ondes Martenots -- Orchestral String Instruments -- Organs -- PA Systems -- Pandora and the Music Genome Project -- Patches -- Pedal Steel Guitars -- Peer-to-Peer File Sharing -- Percussion Instruments -- Player Pianos -- Quadraphonic and Surround Sound -- Radio -- Reel-to-Reel Tape -- Resonator Guitars -- Reverb -- Sampling -- Satellite Radio -- Sequencers -- 78-rpm Records -- Sheet Music -- Smartphones -- Social Media -- Sony Walkman and Discman -- Stereophonic Sound -- Streaming Audio Services -- Tablature -- Tape Manipulation -- Theater Organs -- Theremins -- Transistor Radios -- Video Games -- Vinyl Albums -- Virtual Accompanists -- Virtual Studio Software -- Virtual Synthesizers -- Vocoders and Talk Boxes -- Wire Recording -- Woodwind Instruments -- Yamaha Disklavier -- Yamaha DX7 Synthesizer -- YouTube -- Glossary of Terms.