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Has the Death of the Music Label Started? Depends on What Kind of Label You Mean

3 Comments / Economics, Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling This week is Music Week at KP; we’ll have content on the economics, politics, aesthetics, and culture of music. In part what inspires this week’s focus is some recent new music purchases I’ve made and some of their characteristics. These features indicate some pretty substantial changes in the economics of music creation and …

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Top 10 British Albums of All Time

32 Comments / Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling On a lighter topic, New Music Express has a polled their writers to generate a Top-100 list of all-time British albums. The top 10 are 1. The Stone Roses ‘The Stone Roses’ 2. The Smiths ‘The Queen Is Dead’ 3. Oasis ‘Definitely Maybe’ 4. Sex Pistols ‘Never Mind The Bollocks’ 5. Arctic Monkeys …

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Name That Tune!

4 Comments / Economics, How cool is this?, Music, Telecom / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling In his last column in Technology Review in December 2004, Michael Schrage talked about the importance of the diffusion of innovation. He made a lot of very trenchant observations, including The challenge for policymakers and populations alike is how to cope with the pervasive-and perverse-consequences of ever more people gaining access to ever …

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What a Crazy Week: Franz, Kurt, Etc.

Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling It’s been a long, long time since I’ve been this tired on a Friday afternoon. First week of classes, working on a project with a short timeframe, not enough exercise, and two fun back-to-back music events. The later one, Wednesday, was our standing visit to the Green Mill to hear The Kurt Elling …

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A Musical Interlude

2 Comments / Chicago, Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Your Intrepid Economist spent the last two evenings partaking of the musical plenitude of Chicago. Wednesday was a long-overdue evening at our almost-neighborhood hangout the Green Mill to hear Kurt Elling and “the band”, the Laurence Hobgood Trio. We try to go every Wednesday they’re in town, but my life is often too …

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Conflicted About Grokster

3 Comments / Economics, Music, Networks / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling I don’t have much to say about Grokster because I’m of many minds about it. Turns out I’m not alone; Tyler says economists should feel conflicted about peer-to-peer file sharing. One aspect of Tyler’s argument is what I call the “relevant and irrelevant externality” argument. Will file sharing reduce economic efficiency, leading to …

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Economics In Hip Hop?

13 Comments / Economics, Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling OK, so I’m listening to WOXY in my office, and they’re playing this cool hip-hoppy/rappy/soulful Handsome Boy Modeling School song called “The Truth”, and the male vocalist actually just used the phrase ceteris paribus. And used it pretty correctly, in the context of a song lyric … pretty funny!

Creators Bridging Two Genres: Beethoven And Mill

5 Comments / Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling Last night the KP Spouse and I went to Fidelio at the Lyric Opera. I have been looking forward to it for a long time, because I really like Beethoven. Unlike Lucy in Room With A View, who says that her mother asks her not to play Beethoven because it makes her peevish, …

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Rock Is Dead: Long Live Paper, Scissors

Music / By Michael Giberson

Michael Giberson The switch of local rock radio station WHFS to spanish pop has spurred a number of stories in the local media. Many have noted, as Lynne did, that the station was no longer what it used to be. (See Marc Fisher’s column from the Sunday Post: In a Way, WHFS Was Already Gone.) …

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While We’re In A Music Vein …

6 Comments / Music / By Lynne Kiesling

Lynne Kiesling I am following Will Wilkinson’s lead (which can sometimes be tantalizingly dangerous!) and putting my entire online music collection on shuffle to see what comes up. For some reason my party shuffle gave me 12, so I report them in order here: 1. The Verve, “Neon Wilderness,” from Urban Hymns 2. De/Vision, “6 …

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