Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...music," Ely states proudly, "is a strong, aggressive attack," and at a time when outlaws like Willie Nelson have mellowed into genteel grandees, Ely is an unreconstructed rowdy. He works the kind of honky-tonk where the patrons would tear the designer label off an urban cowboy's jeans, and songs like / Keep Gettin' Paid the Same and Dam of My Heart (both on the new album) sound gritty and firsthand, not arm's length, the preferred performing distance of contemporary country gentlemen...
...raid by Public Security Bureau agents. Their targets: Xu Wenli, 37, and Yang Jing, about 30, the editors of a hand-mimeographed dissident newsletter, April Fifth Forum, named for a 1976 antigovernment demonstration. Though Chief Editor Xu scrupulously avoided outright criticism of China's leaders and shunned the label of dissident, he has been outspoken in demanding more freedom of expression. Last year he noted that "if only views that echo the leadership are allowed, there is no way to speak of real freedom of speech." Though April Fifth Forum had a circulation of only 1,000 before publication...
...Business schools are like bottling plants," says Richard West, dean of Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School. "The product is about 90% done before we ever get it. We put it in a bottle and we label it. The price is a function of what the market will...
...Parker and Ornette Coleman. ECM is a haven for many of the descendants of these jazz giants and stresses a kind of stylistic riskiness underpinned by sobriety. The music that has done the most to build the five-man European company into the world's most thriving jazz label ranges in style and quality from the vaulting improvisational rhapsodies of Keith Jarrett to the congenial jazz-rock fusion of Pat Metheny and the slick sketches of Chick Corea. Jarrett, Metheny and Corea account for most of the label's top ten albums. Jarrett's ravishingly beautiful...
...takes care of manufacturing and marketing and gives Eicher a free creative hand. Eicher, in turn, gives them not only jazz that sells records-a rare enough commodity-but jazz to boast about, jazz that sets a style and a standard. A young jazz musician would want an ECM label the way a short-story writer would want to be published in The New Yorker...