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Musical Pollution: When You Stumble Upon Unwanted Music
Posted on July 14, 2005 | No CommentsUnwanted music has become an insidiously pervasive nuisance whenever one ventures outside the home. It is ubiquitous and yet another overbearing marketing scheme. In the United States, where residents are... -
Lost Without Translation
Posted on April 11, 2005 | No CommentsSomething rank and insidious has crept onto the world music scene recently and it’s coming from the reputable weekly journal Time Magazine. The foul scat littering Time’s pages is coming... -
Singing For Your Supper
Posted on March 30, 2005 | No CommentsAs I am writing this, on the eve of the March 31st parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe, the tunes playing over the airwaves there are as tainted as the strong-armed tactics... -
Oh, Danny Don’t
Posted on March 18, 2005 | No CommentsI imagine more than a just few people will be waking up the day after St. Patrick’s Day still wearing-’o-the-green, of course it might just be the deathly pallor of... -
Dumbing Down, the Dwindling Funding of the Arts
Posted on March 9, 2005 | No CommentsRecently, I received in the mail a request for a donation to a children’s softball league. The problem with this request is that it came from California and I don’t... -
Back Catalog CD Prices Must Go Down
Posted on December 12, 2004 | No CommentsWhy are back catalog CD prices so high, years and even decades after an album came out? This is a question many music fans have asked and still the prices... -
Bye Bye Santa Baby
Posted on November 29, 2004 | No CommentsFor those unfortunate souls in the United States trying to make their way about the business of living and shopping this time of year, there is no safe refuge from... -
The US Ban on Cuban Musicians
Posted on May 24, 2004 | No CommentsIn 2003, the United States’ government denied visas to all the Cuban musicians -or their agents- that applied. The general public was led to believe that stricter border controls, implemented... -
Gatekeepers and Corporate Control of Radio
Posted on January 4, 2004 | No CommentsIn the last two decades (1980s and 1990s), access to the mainstream media by many musicians has become more and more restricted. This is due to several factors, including the... -
Nice Thighs, But What Are You Selling?
Posted on September 16, 2003 | No CommentsNot too long ago, World Music Central received a press packet promoting the musical group called ‘bond.’ The group is a string quartet of highly-trained female musicians, who mix classical...