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  • Marketing And Distribution O Darren
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    Overview From a very early age Darren Swanson had a burning passion for music. His passion grew deeper when realized how much excitement a crowd has when watching a musical performer. In 1989, Darren graduated from Moorhead State University with a BA in music. Darren's career first began by being a lead guitarist in a heavy metal band. The band, Mata Hari, split up in 1993. Darren then joined Malcolm Watson, who was a classical violinist, at Watson and Company. Darren and Malcolm produced the th...
  • Ani Di Franco And Madonna
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    Have you ever heard a song once and was never able to get the tune out of your head no matter how hard you tried? I know that has happened to me on several occasions. Whether we enjoy the songs or not, there is something about music within popular culture that drives the American public wild. Sadly, for quite sometime the music industry was largely closed off to women. Of course there were obvious exceptions to this, since talented female artists have existed through the ages, but on the whole t...
  • Artist For Their Songs
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    NAPSTER: BREAKING THE CONSTITUTION The Napster software, which launched in 1999, allows people to share digital music files (MP 3) between each other. This Internet program has sparked a historical debate about copyright law and the Internet. Copyright owners strongly believe that "sharing" these files via Napster is "stealing" (TIME). Downloading music against the wishes of an artist or producer is breaking the law. Some believe that it is not stealing or illegal. They are just making a copy of...
  • Music By Popular Artists
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    In our society today, people are influenced by many different things. The media uses advertisements and commercials to sell us what "we think we need" in order to fit in. This type of media hype is everywhere; in our magazines, on our television screens, on billboards, and in our music. Yes, music does control society in some aspects. Little girls idolize pop stars, and young men look up to the clever lyricists in our popular culture. Yet, sometimes these role model artists are not sending the r...
  • Scene In The New Musical Rent
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    There's a scene in the new musical 'RENT' that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the '90's. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and Mimi, a junkie who's a dancer at an S / M club, are having a lovers' quarrel when their beepers go off and each takes out a bottle of pills. It's the signal for an 'AZT break,' and suddenly they realize that they " re both HIV-positive. Clinch. Love duet. If you don't think this is romantic, consider that Jonathan Larson's sensational musical is inspired b...
  • Clear Channel Stations Through Voice
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    Clear Channel Ever turn on the radio and hear the same five songs over and over again? You can thank clear channel for that. According to a study conducted last summer the top songs are played more than 85 times between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and only add around 15 songs a week giving the most air time to the largest sum accepted in the promotional payment contract. In blunt terms it is the illegal practice of payola which allows goods and / or money to be exchanged for air time. But Clear channel ha...
  • Promotion From The Record Company
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    In order to organise a tour for a signed act, it takes the efforts of management, the record company, agent and promoter. Although each have their individual responsibilities and ways of working it is required of them to work together as a team in order to make a tour possible, or even for just one gig. They each contribute an essential part of the process and organisational strategies and without co-operation of each unit organising a tour would be practically impossible. Disagreements could ca...
  • Deaths And The Music
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    Aspcets of Death and Dying 1/18/02 Music and Death: The Songs and Deaths of Rock stars That Have Shocked the World Music as we know it today is the voice of a generation. It gives us entertainment, and speaks out for a community of people in many ways. Most people listen to at least some sort of music, and serves a purpose in almost every facet of society. Just about any expression can be shared through music, ideas and feelings about death. Music is used in various way when pertaining to death,...
  • Technical Ingenuities Of Coltrane's Music
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    James C. Hall COLTRANE, JOHN (1926-1967), saxophonist, composer, and iconic figure. John Coltrane's immersion in modern jazz took place in bands led by Eddie Vinson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Johnny Hodges. In 1955 he joined the Miles Davis quintet and was soon identified as one of the most talented tenor saxophonists of the era. The story of Coltrane becoming a major African American cultural icon really began, however, in 1957. In that year he underwent a spiritual "conversion" concomitant with his...
  • Best Groups In Hip
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    What is hip hop? What are some of the common stereotypes and generalizations by which hip hop is conceived? Is it a music that is for only one group of people? Does hip hop promote violence and negativity? Many people claim that it is a disgraceful, din. Antagonists often claim that hip hop is offensive to many groups of people. I will agree that unfortunately these are sometimes true with certain varieties of hip hop. The fact is that so many artists out there are in the industry simply for the...
  • Hard People Work On Their Music
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    As I sat in front of my computer downloading my favorite song from Napster, I started to think about how hard it must have been to write a song so sublime with the way the words flow from one another, and how talented one must be to do so. I started to think how hard people work on their music for themselves and their fans, and how their fans don't realize what they are doing every time they download a song off the internet. What they don't realize is that it is messing over the people who worke...
  • Napster And Other File
    970 words
    Sean Fanning, the creator of Napster, had no idea of the effects when he jump started Napster in 1998. Hundreds of thousands of songs were being exchanged by the blink of an eye, minute after minute, millions by the hour. This had the record companies and artists heads spinning with no solution for the matter in sight. From the greed stricken record industry executives to the teenagers downloading the latest Limp Bizkit track, it seemed as though everyone had their own stance towards the file sh...
  • Beauty Of The West
    412 words
    The old west has been portrayed truly and falsely through art, music, and literature fromthe late 1800's and early 1900's up till this day when illustrated through movies. Artistic expression and communication presented the realities and illusions of the old west, some of which attracted various people there, while keeping others at home. Beginning with art, one of the main painters of these years (1860-1900) was Frederick Remmington. He painted over 2,700 pictures of the frontier. One example i...
  • Artists Concerning Mp 3 And Napster
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    CD Burners Who Should Be Held Responsible In todays world many people are using CD burners to copy Compact Disks (CDs). The question is who should be held responsible, the companies that manufacture these devices or the people that use the devices to copy CDs of friends and family members. No matter how you look at it, it is digital piracy, which is illegal and goes under the copyright laws of the individuals that produced the music that is being downloaded. I think that the companies that manuf...
  • First Part Of The Music
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    Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Nineteenth century was the time where music composers sought inspiration from sources outside music. An encounter with nature, the impressions of a voyage, love tragedy, popular legend, or even in some cases an entire play might provide a story that could be described in music. Of course it is not possible for a tale to be told thoroughly through music. But, there are certain events in the story that can be presented through music by using different colors, ...
  • Work At Napster
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    File sharing is what it is thought as, but I don't see it that way. I see it as theft, music theft, most commonly know as shafting. Every day people use shafting and think nothing of it. People sit in front of their computers and go to their favorite website and download file after file with out thinking how or where it comes from. They think it is just there for the taking and it is. What they don't realize is that it is messing over the people who worked so hard pouring out their heart and sol...
  • Beck's Music
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    Music is central to my life. Without music, the world would be naked, cold, and quiet. Music can set the rhythm for a long day of work, the mood for a date, for a party, for your whole life. It can wrap you in a blanket of comfort when you are lonely, or inspire you when you are down. Music is a vehicle for expressing love, telling a story, or showing happiness. My love for music has grown immensely throughout the past few years and continues to grow without bounds. Playing musical instruments, ...

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