20th Century
Today's music is unique to any other time period in the history of music. Not only does it have interesting tones and rhythms but it also has a bit of history in every piece. With every idea comes a new opportunity to create a masterpiece. All the past periods, the Renaissance, Classical, Barouche, and Romantic and so on have all boiled up to this time period. Also, our world has become so sophisticated and mechanically advanced that music has had it's own revolution, and this is the result. Modern music is our day in age.
The contemporary period resulted in the great advancements of technology, transportation and automation; especially the dominating world powers Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States. At the turn of the century, Henry Ford created the first assembly line for automotives and was the founder of mass production. Mass production was the name given to the method of producing goods in large quantities at low cost per unit. Although allowing lower prices, it did not have mean low-quality production. Instead, mass-produced goods were standardized by means of precision-manufactured, interchangeable parts. The process itself was characterized by mechanization to achieve high volume, elaborate organization of materials flow through various stages of manufacturing, careful supervision of quality standards, and minute division of labor. In addition to mass production, the assembly line was an imperative invention. Though prototypes of the assembly line could be traced to antiquity, the true ancestor of this industrial technique was the 19th-century meat-packing industry in Cincinnati, Ohio, and in Chicago, Illinois, where overhead trolleys were employed to convey carcasses from worker to worker. When these trolleys were connected with chains and power was used to move the carcasses past the workers at a steady pace, they formed a true assembly line (or in effect a "disassembly" line in the case of meat cutters). Stationary workers concentrated...
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