Factors Affecting the History of the Jukebox

Factors Affecting the History of the Jukebox During the 1890s, recordings had become popular primarily through coin-in-the-slot phonographs in public places. In the decade 1910-20, the phonograph became a truly mass medium for popular music, and recordings of large-scale orchestral works and other classical instrumental music proliferated. In the mid-1920s, radio, which provided free music, developed, and this new factor, plus the worldwide economic depression of the 1930s, threw the phonograph industry into serious decline. During the 1930s, as the American companies relied mainly on dance records in jukeboxes to satisfy a dwindled market, Europe supplied a slow but steady trickle of classical recordings. New jukeboxes for sale can be found in music stores or on the Internet.