Word: marketization
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...evidenced, apparently, by the prominence of black artists in the playlists of mainstream stations. A quick glance at census statistics--African-Americans make up 26 percent of metropolitan New York's population, compared to 7 percent of greater Boston's (see govinfo.library.orst.edu)--indicates that New York stations are after market share, not racial harmony. MAX HIRSH...
...Rothschilds rose in their astonishing trajectory in the first half of the 19th century--inventing the international bond market, financing Europe's nations through wars and revolutions and the construction of their railway systems, growing to become the largest bank in the world (a dominance maintained until 1914)--they functioned as a free-lance supranational force. They passed along diplomatic intelligence for Metternich, for example, through their own communications network...
Ferguson has had access to all the surviving Rothschild archives, including the family's vast private correspondence, which fills 135 boxes. He sorts through the intricacies of their business deals: financing governments, bill brokering, working the international bullion market, trading in American cotton and tobacco, Spanish mercury and Russian copper. The legerdemain of speculative finance in another century is sometimes occult material, but Ferguson manages it well...
When Rent opened on Broadway in 1996, it seemed to augur a new era of hip, youthful Broadway shows. Wrong. The Broadway musical after Rent has looked pretty much like the Broadway musical before it. The only recent show that seems aimed squarely at the teen market is the hopelessly square Footloose, a clunky stage version of the 1984 movie...
Producers are also looking for new ways to market their shows to young theatergoers. Rent distributes book covers in schools. Hedwig hands out postcards at rock clubs and has created logo stickers for backpacks and skateboards. These efforts, of course, can help attract more than just skateboarders. "Once people hear that the younger folks are going," says Drew Hodges, whose Spotco agency created the ad campaigns for De La Guarda and other shows, "there's a real aspirational crowd that is 30 to 45 and wants to be in the same places as the trend makers who are 22." Young...