This extra-musical content that accompanied the physical piece of recording helped people understand the original context of the music at least a little. Remember liner notes for vinyl? They often detailed the location of the studio, the names of the engineers, and maybe even an anecdote from the artist herself about the recording session. However, there was once a time in the era of commercially distributed recorded music when great effort was put into explaining where the music came from. Of course, this has always been a concomitant cost of recorded music (dating back to the ancient days of the phonograph). With the shift to digitization of music in the 21st century, consumers of music have an ever- decreasing capacity to connect with the original context in which the music was created.
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