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...focus on the stories behind the walls," says Michel Sitruk, head of business development for Soundwalk. "We want to give a sense of the pulse of a neighborhood." Besides selling its CDs through book retailers, the company has made a deal with download site Audible.com, the spoken-word audio-content provider for iTunes. Now you can immerse yourself in the sounds of Chinatown without leaving Kansas...
...were better informed about their choices in advance of attending class. Improving and streamlining the distribution of this information—while not a substitute for giving students the opportunity to experience professors’ lecturing styles firsthand—will better educate student shoppers about the difficulty and content of courses, which in turn will improve the overall efficiency of shopping period...
...Jagged Little Pill no longer seems relevant, not only because we’ve all aged but because its verse-chorus-verse, its hooks, were always more important than its “content.” They’re old now. I’ve never understood how lyrics could single-handedly overshadow boring music. The value placed on music’s literary aspect seems to ignore the fact that music, as the Bomb Squad put it, is nothing more than organized noise. If music is powerful because it’s immediate, because it?...
...find hip-hop lyrics compelling for entirely different reasons. With hip-hop, the vocal delivery, the form, is so inextricable from the actual content that you’re forced to listen to the words. This must be why good rappers don’t really have to say much in order to say “something”—whether their message is clouded behind metaphors or squashed by battle rhymes, the way they explore the limits of rhythmic interplay, timbre and inflection using real words somehow validates everything they say. It makes the words seem...
...Class size is] subject specific, topic specific and theme specific,” Bhabha says. “I think the nature of the class should reflect the nature of the particular subject or theme that is being taught, so it should reflect the intellectual and scholarly content...