Music

* See also Artists_in_Rapture 
* See also Radio_In_Rapture
* See also Nostalgia
* See also Player_Created_Assets
^ See also Entertainment_In_Rapture
Instruments Playable in game ... ( other MMORPGs have this feature with 'music scores - including whole small orchestras )
Player Created Music IN-GAME (instruments) ( ie- the 'ABC' file format for the played notes )
Player Created Music - Submitted Assets ( fully Vetted )
Permanent Assets to only Use No-Copyright material ( need access/way to check that status )
Flavor ( 1930s - 1940s music, maybe 1920s also ) Some 50s music got into Rapture
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Big Band Music :
Why was Solo game Rapture stuck in the 1920s/1930s ? When WW2 Music was quite popular (including 'Swing')?
May have something to do with copyrights NOT running out ( those are alot of older songs they used in-game ) and them trying to match the Art Deco Era, which largely ended during WW2. AND the 1920s/1930s were Ryan's formative years ( There can be that Phenomenon where : Past a certain age just about everything New "sounds like crap" to most people. )
A few talented "Player Creators" might come up with some composing their own Big Band 'sounding' music. ( Vetting definitely required - even 'variations' cause lawsuits ).
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Some music played in BS1 is from the 1920s ( plenty was still around of that was popular with older folk )
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" ( 1929 )
The 1920s were the formative years for Ryan, so no doubt such would be popular ( still played in Rapture ) because he liked those styles ( and perhaps so did many in Rapture 'looking back' before the War and Great Depression. )
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Idea : Classical Music converted to Jazz as a source of non-copyrighted Music Assets
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Shrieking Demon - The Electric Guitar in Rapture :
Invented in 1931 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar ), so no problem having it present in Pre-%27civil war%27 Rapture -- Just that it may have been a minority amongst all the other inventor-isms ( weird would have been the 'Room of Sound' in Dionysus Park with such discordant music playing still on the recording loops - perfect for "DIS'ing" Ryan's sensibilities -- done wearing 'Pope Hats Pope Hats - Something Stanley Poole says in BS2.' naked as well, no doubt ... http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Lamb_Flouts_the_System ).
One of the abilities of a Player Created Asset system is that original compositions can be used in the game ( with requisite 'boilerplate' legal paperwork stating that works of Authors be authorized for limited-use ONLY IN THE GAME with no transfer of Rights beyond that -- and that it can be withdrawn on request of the originator ). 
Original works of talented Players ( and many of ho-hum quality ) - possibly meaningful to put on your Resume that your work was accepted on a Mutli-million dollar MMORPG ...
As ever, the *Vetting* of all Assets done so not to trod on anyone's Rights. It is amazing that you have to have as much consideration for 'Lawyerisms' as much as 'Quality' in making Games these days. But that is what we get with a (Real) Real World society that tolerates so much Lawyer Parasitism ( I mention that issue elsewhere about Rapture ). Hmmm, add Collaboration Rules for Unique Assets, which are not to be subject to alteration/improvements ( a general Author Request option in that system - Artists 'Vision' ... and all that ... )
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"The Linen Club" ( A Takeoff on the Cotton Club, Harlem in NYC in the 1920s ) :
'Jazz' for the White Folk ...
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Music Drug Culture :
Could you get Heroin in Rapture ??? By the 1940s it weren't the 'Reefer' any more, but Heroin ( Marijuana - previously had been the drug of choice of jazz musicians - But it was relatively easily grown ). It is not likely to have Rapture growing its own Opiates ( from Opium Poppies ), as that is far more difficult a task.
SO, perhaps some equivalent synthetic drugs ?? 'You Can't do Everything in Rapture' ... Even if it has got lots and lots of geniuses. Such synthetic drugs cannot easily come in sufficient amounts from the Surface World, CONSIDER : If easily made, the World would have ALREADY been full of such a synthetic if they had been cheap to make. Even for any breakthrough "Rapture Made", the pure chemicals used in synthesis have to come from somewhere - and you don't just find them in Sea Water or Kelp or Fishguts.
So whatever the drugs are, they will likely be expensive ( and doubly so if they have to be 'smuggled' ). Such pharmaceutical substances are also hard to find/obtain 'up there', and thus require additional Surface World connections with resulting complications for any Smuggling -- A factor which would add greatly to the prices.
Consider : Those that were drug-addicted probably would not be likely to be coming to Rapture ... 
With ADAM you could repair the physical destruction that such drugs cause ... less the mental damage. 
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