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âSo thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This h
âHis own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the over
A month earlier, according to Music Business Worldwide, UMG acquired the remaining 51% of PIAS, Europeâs largest independent music company. These acqu
The music streaming industry is at a critical juncture. While revenues are at an all-time high, driven by800 million premium subscribers and a global
We already know that by ownership independents account for nearly half of the recorded music market. The reality is that the feeding frenzy in the ind
And âindie,â in the current day, doesnât necessarily mean âsmallâ: the big-tent Beggars Group (4AD, Matador, Rough Trade, XL, and Young Turks) is inar
Hellman & Friedman's majority stake in Global Music Rights marks a watershed moment â private equity firms now control three major PROs (alo
Gen AI  for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on rights man
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when the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. ideas, language, even the phrase each other doesnât make any sense.
A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke, The less he spoke, the more he heard, Why arenât we all like that old bird
Rockefellerâs job wasnât to drill wells, load trains, or move barrels. It was to make good decisions. And making decisions requires, more than anythin
Silence always gives in to let noise take its place. That is the constant dance that they share.
Itâs hard to talk about âmasterpiecesâ because the concept trades on a theory of aesthetics that is controversial when spelled out (aesthetic value re
The inhabitants of /lit/ see themselves as the victim of anti-canon efforts, as the academy has sought to âdecoloniseâ and expand the curriculum over
A reading revolution is taking place on this notorious message board, most famous for alt-right memes, anything-goes chatter, and large-scale coordina
One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists. But I rarely see analysts mention them. Maybe they did, and it was behind a pa
Trump seemed unmoved by his divine destiny: the messiah, after all, is an unpaid position. More mysterious is why Parnas â a transnational criminal un
What do they say? Nothing at all. Life goes on. In the morning, adults hurry to work; children go to school; grandmothers go stand in lines. More and
But the question remains: Why was the Palace of the Soviets to be erected precisely where the Temple of Christ the Saviour had stood? (Let us add that
THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore
And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those
Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron â âhollywood loveâ hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell â âreal loveâ â88
" We teachers - perhaps all human beings - are in the grip of an astonishing delusion. We think that we can take a picture, a structure, a working mod
thinking about when my dad was teaching me to drive and had me do my route to school (12 miles away) three times: once at the speed limit, once at the
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design is the embodiment of values. Design is the ultimate commitment to or compromise of oneâs values. And this is how we go about the world. We make
When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, âI submitted to the typeface of least resistance.â Ti
