3rd Paper Proposal (Correct One)

For my next paper I know exactly what idea I want to explore. Music has always caught and held my interest from a young age. But since that young age when I started fir admiring music, it has changed indefinitely. The music world simply isn’t the same as it was thirty years ago. Over the years I have grown to admire all types of music from all genre and era's, but it seems that the present in my eyes has the least to offer in being musically rich and appealing. I want to argue that music is dying! In today’s world originality and uniqueness is growing harder and harder to find. Everything is shaped in a way that makes it generic and socially acceptable, therefore no new types of original music are being spawned. I don’t want to sound like a critic that just favors classic legendary artists with no openness to the present or future but I want to basically overview that the music industry is changing drastically and in my opinion it’s for the worse.

The music industry itself will be my main focus of my paper. Things commercially have changed from the past in a harsh way. The idea of buying albums is almost comical in today’s world. Today it’s all about illegal downloading and buying music individually track by track off the Internet. Now that not what music is about. Instead of today’s society gaining knowledge in music, albums, and history of music of their generation they are simply downloading an ongoing mix tape of individual songs that appeal to them. Maybe this idea might seem economically correct to the person but ethically I think any music enthusiast will have his/her criticism.

What is going to happen to the music industry? According to numerous sites album sales are declining by 20% a year, a year! What is going to happen to that trend when it hits bottom? Is music going to go out of fashion because it’s so hard for artists can’t make money? In my eyes it would be sad but justified seeing extremely talented musicians 30 years from now selling albums out of the trunk of their cars and at shows in fear of engaging in the past commercial way of doing things.

Finally what will the music industry be fifty years from now? To me that questions answer is almost scary to think about. Will the music industry of tomorrow be anything like todays? Is music going to lose its focus of existing out of personal expression and enjoyment to existing to stimulate income? Will artists start replicating music that they think society approves of and wants to hear? There are so many different ideas to engage in when talking about the future of the music industry to people like me it’s an ongoing rant about how this ship is sinking and sinking fast.

I know my ideas might seem scatterbrain and opinionated at times but this argument is just so out there and interesting to discuss. I think I could do a great job of exploring the tomorrow of the music industry and what we can do to affect its revival or demise.......
As for my sources go, my first source I plan to use is a book called Nuthin But A G Thing by Eithne Quinn. This book is very informational historically and it shares ideas about the music of rap and hip hop through the years. My next source is a book by William Mckeen called Rock And Roll Is Here to Stay. This book has a cluster of things concerning the music industry from interviews with musicians to statements from the music industry’s top leaders commercially. Right now I have two legitimate internet sources both concerning the music industry’s future on an economical standpoint. The first article is called simply What is going to happen to the music industry by Melissa Chang. This article questions things like music sales and the process of selling music while trying to determine what will happen in the future. My next source and probably favorite article I have found is out of the New York Times called What’s The Future of the Music Industry. This article is a perfect representation of what I want to write about in my paper. It includes everything from economics to questioning the fate of musical artist of tomorrow’s society….