Word: manhattanization
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...global music doesn't exclude America. After all, America's biggest rock star, Dave Matthews, is a white African; Japan's biggest pop star, Utada Hikaru, hails from Manhattan. The old-school term world music is a joke, a wedge, a way of separating English-language performers from the rest of the planet. But there has always been crossover. In 1958 Dean Martin scored a hit with the Italian tune Volare; in 1967 Frank Sinatra recorded an album of songs by Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim. Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling in Love is based...
...center of the teen-pop revolution, you enter an unmarked, soot-colored brownstone in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. In his office on the 11th floor, behind his big wooden desk with its neatly organized stacks of CDs, Jive president Barry Weiss is a crackling wire of energy, jumping up to fetch a DVD from a shelf, scribbling memos, barking orders in a brisk, rat-tat-tat fashion. The walls of the native Long Islander's office are decorated with the trophies of two decades of conquests--half a dozen gold and platinum albums...
Growing up in New York City--and specifically in Manhattan--has completely, tremendously informed myself as a person and also everything musical that has come forth from me and everything that my band [Beastie Boys] has done. What still inspires me to continue to live here is the fact that even as much as New York has changed--and there's a Starbucks on every corner and it's so expensive to live in Manhattan and all these things that are different from when I grew up here--the bottom line is that when you walk down the street...
...slump - will be stymied for awhile. But it's also true that war often helps economies, a point 60s protesters made repeatedly. World War II, economic historians agree, helped pull America out of the Depression. The price tag of this new war - whether it's the rebuilding of lower Manhattan or renewed defense spending - could turn out to be the elusive stimulus package everyone was talking about just a week ago. It's gruesome to think, but this sickening event might actually help the economy by injecting tens of billions of dollars into...
...course, conventional wisdom becomes convention for a reason: it has some real foundation. It may prove true again. But the conventional wisdom last Monday was that America was at peace, life was pretty grand, and the Manhattan skyline was pretty as a postcard...