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Legendary Folk Duo Crosby & Nash on Soundtracking Movements From the 1960s to Occupy Wall Street

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Nov. 10 (News Report) - Just days after performing at the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Lower Manhattan, the legendary musicians David Crosby and Graham Nash join us live in our studio. For the duo, Occupy Wall Street is the latest in a number of causes they have supported in their historic careers stretching back nearly five decades. They are best known as founding members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, a supergroup that performed at Woodstock and sold millions of records. Both are two-time inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Throughout their careers, politics has played a central role in their music. About the Occupy Wall Street movement, Crosby says: “There's an awful lot of people who feel that they are not represented in Congress, that Congress has been bought by the large corporations, and that they are powerless and are getting the short end of the stick.” [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Putting Sustainability to Music

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By MIchael Todd - Nov. 05 (News Report) - A body of environmentally minded musicians and music industry types, while not abandoning the public face of action, are working to create institutional change behind the scenes.

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Ban on School Christmas Carols Upheld

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

beliefnet - By Jeanette Rundquist - Oct. 05 (News) - "Silent Night" and other religious songs will remain off the program at holiday concerts in one New Jersey school district -- and possibly others across the country -- after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a school ban on religious holiday music.

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Triumph of the Cyborg Composer | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Ryan Blitstein - Feb. 22 (Special Report) - UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor David Cope's software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?

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Playing For Change | "War/No More Trouble"

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

vimeo.com - May. 05 (Other) - No War

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Best Video I've Seen Today Will Make You Smile - Songs around the world

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

gizmodo.com - May. 05 (Other) - Have a listen...fabulous!!

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Apple Adds Still More DRM to iPod Shuffle | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

eff.org - By Fred von Lohmann - Mar. 13 (Special Report) - Even as it attacks DRM on music, Apple is continuing to add more DRM to its own hardware (we recently documented all of Apple's various hardware DRM restrictions). The latest example is the new iPod Shuffle. According to the careful reviewers at iLounge, third-party headphone makers will have to use yet-another Apple "authentication chip" if they want to interoperate with the new Shuffle. Normally, of course, independent headphone makers could simply reverse engineer the interface. The "authentication chip" is there so that Apple's lawyers can invoke the DMCA to block those efforts. So this shows us, yet again, what DRM is for -- not stopping piracy, but rather impeding competition and innovation. iLounge sums up what this means for consumers: This is, in short, a nightmare scenario for long-time iPod fans: are we entering a world in which Apple controls and taxes literally every piece of the iPod purchase from headphones to chargers, jacking up their prices, forcing customers to re-purchase things they already own, while making only marginal improvements in their functionality? It’s a shame, and one that consumers should feel empowered to fight. Couldn't have said it better myself.

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Putin takes a chance

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Kevin O'Flynn - Feb. 24 (News Analysis) - Vladimir Putin appears worried that a performance by an ABBA tribute band could be his Waterloo......Although it may sound like harmless gossip, there are serious questions about who paid for the concert and whether a prime minister should accept such largesse in a country where billions of dollars have been stolen, where the press is heavily controlled, and where it would be naive to think there would ever be much scandal over a private concert.

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Art and Music Are Key to Student Development

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Edutopia - By Fran Smith - Feb. 01 (Special Report) - "Art does not solve problems, but makes us aware of their existence," sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, on the other hand, does solve problems. Years of research show that it's closely linked to almost everything that we as a nation say we want for our children and demand from our schools: academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity.

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GroundReport - United States - Warner Music And 7 Digital.com To Unveil MP3s Without DRMsWarner Music And 7 Digital.com To Unveil MP3s Without DRMs

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Groundreport.com - By Jacob Cherian - Mar. 06 (News Report) - London, U.K. - Music firm, Warner Music has come together with 7 Digtial.com to introduce MP3s without DRMs or Digital Rights Management systems.

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Ezra Pound's Radio Operas

Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:00:00 -0700

mitpress.mit.edu - By Margaret Fisher - Jul. 01 (Special Report) - In this study of Pound's radio operas of the 1930s, Margaret Fisher draws on the unpublished correspondence between Pound and his maverick BBC producer, Edward Archibald Fraser Harding, to reveal a little-known aspect of Pound's career.

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