History of music Poster- Tom Ayling

the music poster's used to be hand drawn to help promote local perfomances.

when the printing press was invetnted it ment that it could be used for advertising purposes. As the printing press got more sophistcated it became easier and cheaper to produce your compines artisit. But they were limited to text and crude art. the poster is one of cheretes music poster.

the next generation of music was named the golden age of music the belle epoque.which was during the late victorian era. this is when the artistic poster started . the main contributor to this was a french artist called jules cheret, he was credited for making serious art for serious artistis.He soon began to take commison for theses posters. it was in the begining of the art nouvera era.

in the first part of the 20th century the art nouvera era was pushed aside and was replaced by the art decor but music posters where pushed aside by two huge movments in the media industry these were radio and film and later on televison. due to the huge impact of theses new technololagies the use of posters to advertise musice saw a huge decline in the use of them.

the main reason that film had a huge impact in the decline of music poster was because short films where often based around music.

The second coming of the golden age was in the sixtes is when there was a cultural shift and the posters became a domintant way to advitsed the music gigs.Although pop music had been around for a decade it began to make head ways in to televison which ment acts would not have to rely on word of mouth and printed advertisments.

the 70s and onwards.

during the 70s televsion began to accept bands and singers that had once been conisdered underground and not well advertised. as a result of this posters once again declined as the primary sauce of advertisment.