Word: musics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Along with Gates, Guinier and Nye, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree and Higginbotham's daughter, Karen Higginbotham, spoke at the memorial service. Lawrence Watson, Ruth Hamilton and the Kummba Singers, a campus choir that sings spiritual music, performed at the service...
...thinking about the concept of the transition between music and television and film," he said. "What I believe the differences between the mediums are, and as a performer the way you make believe and as producer the way you make the transition...
...Internet is changing the way musicians sell their work and, in doing so, broadening the range of music that consumers get to hear. Says Al Teller, former CEO of MCA Music Group who now heads Atomic Pop, a new company that will sell downloadable music on the Web: "What the Web offers is an opportunity for the artist to go directly to the consumer." Musicians and entrepreneurs are exploring new ways of putting the technology to use. DJ Spooky recently featured his music on a deejay website that encouraged users to remix his work and e-mail the new creations...
John Perry Barlow, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says the music industry is entering a new era. He sees the 20th century as a time when music was stuffed into containers--LPs, eight-track tapes, CDs. Now that musicians can reach fans directly, there's no need for "container makers," i.e., record labels. "Record companies are in a death struggle with the Web," says Barlow. "They're using techniques that have been used in the war on drugs--zero tolerance, ramping up education and enforcement and trying...
...live shows and became one of the most popular acts in rock. But Brooke has this worry: "There's a danger to making things so accessible that you devalue your own work." The challenge for musicians will be to stay both Web friendly and in control of their music...