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...some of those famous green shoots," says Peter Felix, President of the Association of Executive Search Consultants. The $11 billion executive search industry took a dive in the first quarter of the year, with average net revenues tumbling 38% from 2008. But now that things have hit rock bottom for headhunters, they're seeing companies once again ask for help in filling crucial top spots. "There's a limit to how long you can hold your breath," says Felix. "Things are beginning to ease up a bit. Companies are taking a hard look at the quality of their management...
...Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll, musician and writer Elijah Wald looks past the world's most famous musicians to explore the significance of those who were simply popular in their own time. Title aside, Wald does it without slamming the Fab Four. He spoke with TIME about the origins of rock 'n' roll's racial divide, the way technology is changing the way we listen to music and the future of music...
...think they never appealed to black Americans in the same way? It's about rhythm. In all of pop music up to the arrival of the Beatles, whenever we talk about a hot new trend - from ragtime to jazz to swing to R&B to rock 'n' roll - what we're talking about is new dance rhythm coming in. The British bands were modern in their harmonies and songwriting, their song forms were very interesting and they did new things with instruments. But their rhythms were steadily old-fashioned...
...future? I don't know where it is now, and neither does anybody else. Somebody just told me that he had been to a record store in Boston where they have a section of music records from video games. The way you find Aerosmith is by playing Rock Band. If that's the world we're living in right now, none of us can guess what's going to happen next...
...very stable audience base. We see it week after week. In great cities like New York, there's an audience for almost any type of art. In fact, I think it's grown to an extent, though of course it will never have the audience that you get for rock 'n' roll...