Analysis Of Ahmet Built And Tom Dowd's Language Of The Music Industry

In class we watched four documentaries that help show us different sides to the music industry. The first two we watched, The House that Ahmet Built and Tom Dowd’s Language of Music. These videos showed us a behind the scenes look into the music industry. Ahmet was one of the founders for Atlantic Records, which helped hundreds of artists and bands become famous. It shows his life and how he grew from a young boy who traveled the world as a son of an ambassador to one of the greatest men to influence the music industry. Atlantic Records ties in with Tom Dowd who was a music producer for Atlantic Records. He was very smart and attended Columbia University at ages fourteen! He was also part of the Manhattan project during the Second World War. From his intelligence he put his knowledge towards music and helped produced some of the greatest records of all time. The last two

They are essential to the production of music and without them the show would not be what it is today. Without the band some of the famous artist we know today would not have been as great as a hit as we know them to be. Knowing who the individual band members are helps us to understand how crucial they were to making the music. With the band, The Monkees, they were a group of young men who could sing, but did not know how to play an instrument. So when recording the Wrecking Crew would play the instruments, so on tour they just had to look like they were playing the music when really it was just a recording. I found this to be very interesting since if you are going to be in a band you should at least have some skill when it comes to playing an instrument. One question that I always thought about was why did they never give themselves any credit? They could have made it known to the world that they were and what they did for music, but instead they hide in the shadows creating the music they