Faith Hahn

Old rights systems and remuneration struggle to keep up, and meanwhile, new creators keep creating, and audiences keep engaging. The wheel keeps turning in an explosion of creativity and growth, while legacy organisations wring their hands in confusion. Adaptation is made even more challenging by the fact that these new methods of consumption are,... See more

I know plenty of literate adults who can decode words, but who also appear to be lousy readers.

Well, even though making and releasing music has become easier than ever, the support of a major label — and its marketing powerhouse — is one of the top determinants (if not prerequisites) for getting access to some of the most valuable streaming "real estate" .

For a millennium, rivalries between and among Byzantine noble families propelled public life, with the kind of bloody factional maneuvering that makes the Tudors look like the Waltons in comparison.

Though political power was usually a male privilege in Byzantium, a striking feature of the Byzantine tales is the prominence of women as political... See more

“We have to overcome some legal hurdles, but we could unionize musicians tomorrow,” DeFrancesco said. “SAG is like an alternate history for musicians. We’ve done all this before and won, just not within recent memory.”

Some musicians are in fact unionized. The American Federation of Musicians, with 80,000 members in the U.S. and Canada, collectively... See more