“In the past, graduate companies kept body and soul together on breadcrumbs for maybe eight to 10 years, always with the hope that if you were good enough you would eventually secure more regular funding. That expectation now seems to have gone.”
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So Maybe The Future Of Books Is Not The Printed Page?
“The number of audiobook titles increased by nearly 400 percent between 2011 and 2015. E-books, by comparison, are down in 2016, as are adult hardcovers (i.e., printed books from commercial publishers, not including religious or university press titles). Which prompts the question: Do these statistics herald audio as the preferred reading format of the future?”
Milt Okun, Record Producer Who Crossed Folk With Pop And Changed The Record Industry, Dead At 92
He produced and promoted everyone from Peter, Paul and Mary through Laura Nyro and John Denver (and Plácido Domingo – Okun was the man behind their duet) to the Black-Eyed Peas and will.i.am.
Subsidizing Arts Tickets Hasn’t Succeeded In Broadening The Arts Audience. So Maybe Something Different?
“The uncanny similarities between this year’s Culture White Paper and its 1965 ancestor (along with the Warwick Commission and much other research) show that this hasn’t really produced an arts sector that enfranchises everyone, despite the best intentions of policymakers. Countless initiatives (and millions of pounds) have been spent trying to shift the demographic profile of arts audiences and workers in the sector. They have remained stubbornly white and well-off.”
How Two Brothers Created And Spread The First Alphabet For A Language Spoken By 40 Million People
For several centuries, people have tried to write Fulani – which is spoken across a huge swath of West Africa, from Senegal to Cameroon – with adaptations of the Arabic and Latin alphabets, neither of which can properly represent Fulani’s sounds; neither ever fully caught on. So Fulani remained mostly a spoken language, its speakers taking their school classes in French or English. In 1990, two Guinean teenagers developed a new script, and they’ve spent a quarter-century spreading it.
Winners Of This Year’s National Book Awards
Here’s a complete list of finalists and winners.
They Took Notes For Other People That They Found Lying Around And Made Them Into A Musical
It all started when Davy Rothbart (you may remember him from This American Life – he’s the guy who scalped Chicago Bulls tickets and took his deaf mother to a faith healer in Brazil) found a note on his windshield that said, ‘Mario, I [bleeping] hate you. You said you had to work then whys your car HERE at HER place? You’re a [bleeping] LIAR[.] I hate you I [bleeping] hate you[.] Amber. p.s. page me later.”
Critical Juncture – The Role (And Reach) Of Critics Is Changing
Once, critics like Trilling, Sontag, and Kael commanded the attention of a large audience and were expected to shape and challenge a still roughly homogenous public opinion. Today, many critics struggle to find a unified culture to interpret and criticize and a public to address. As A.O. Scott insists, the critic’s role is “to disagree, to refuse to look at anything simply as what it is,” and yet in an age in which critics often are forced to set their sights on films like Avengers: Age of Ultron, it appears that the critic can be nothing other than “the vanguard of pointing out the obvious.”
Where Diversity Is Integral To The Art Form: Dance
“I came away thinking, One thing we can be proud of is that dancers from all over the world want to come to the United States. This is the country where they find themselves as artists.”
Classical And Pop Music Produce Different Responses In The Brain, Say Researchers
The way they’re putting this may not go over so well with some folks, though: “‘This study gives clear neuronal evidence supporting the view that artistic music is of intelligence, while popular music is of physiology,’ writes a team of researchers led by Ping Huang of South China Normal University in Guangzhou.”