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    Instead, he toured as part of a concert series devoted to movie music; did two radio shows a week, including "Your Hit Parade," and performed up and down the West Coast. In November 1946, Columbia estimated that Sinatra was recording an average of twenty-four songs a year, enabling them to release one new Sinatra record a month. Not a single band today can produce hit albums at the pace Sinatra did. A successful band today would be expected to produce three records a year; Sinatra did four times

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    Art Cultural System

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    Dusty was exposed to this sound during the 1930s when “rural radio stations in particular began playing music by both North American hillbilly performers (such as Jimmie Rodgers and Wilf Carter) and Australian and New Zealand performers (such as Smokey Dawson and Tex Morton),” this music inspired many amateur performers. The use of simple primary chords (mostly C D A and G), often in open positions as well as the usually symmetrical

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    Tesla Research Paper

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    funding issues now looming overhead, Tesla forfeited his project at his Wardenclyffe Tower in 1915, and “the tower was dynamited for its scrap value in 1917” (Rybak 40). However, scientists and engineers all over the world today, both expert and amateur alike, continue to

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    Analysis of the Music Industry

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    Music may be defined romantically as `the food of love ' (Shakespeare) or more prosaically as `sound with particular characteristics ' (Wikipedia), but it is undeniably a `vibrant artform ' (Arts Council England) and one which touches more people, in more ways, than any other art form. In commercial terms, music certainly generates a higher market value than the other arts, although a comprehensive market size for music in all its manifestations is impossible to calculate. Key Note has put a value

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    they won all 57 games. But that was not the starting point of organized baseball. In 1857 “the Knickerbocker club of New York City invited several neighboring bands of players to assemble and agree upon a standardized set of rules.” This latter grew in to the National Association of Baseball Players with the primary goal of keeping it an amateur sport. This latter changed after seeing how well the Red Stockings did and a new organization was formed, the National Association of Professional Baseball

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    Essay on The Music of Puerto Rico

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    preserved by oral tradition. Around the eighteenth century, one of the factors that caused considerable impact on the formation of the Island Music, was the arrival of a group of musicians with a Spanish military regiment in 1765. The activity of these bands, which included public concerts and the music of nature based, religious and social activities, along with traditional festivals at the center of town squares, prosecutes a favorable environment for musical development. By the end of the eighteenth

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    History of Dth

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    marketplace makes for an exciting story, this is an industry with a history unknown to most. It is a story of an industry which was never supposed to exist. An industry born out of the genius of a Stanford University college professor and publicized by ham radio conversations. An industry that defied all odds to grow from the backyards of techies and early adapters to today's multi-billion dollar first-line competitor to the cable monopoly in America. And, it is the story of an industry comprised of thousands

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    The Sound and Music Industry

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    downloads freeing them up from the costly recording and distribution process. These acts are also looking after their own Music Publishing as well, keeping a bigger share of any eventual royalties (these are discussed in depth later in this essay). Huge bands such as RadioHead are also jumping on to the Internet bandwagon, releasing their latest album as ‘pay what you think it is worth '; this is discussed in more detail under the Marketing area of the Industry. 1. Music Publishing: Once an artist/group

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    3/20/2012 GAJULAPALLY NALINI | 08611A1219 | NES | 5 PEN PC TECHNOLOGY | 1. INTRODUCTION Five pen pc shortly called as P-ISM (“Pen-style Personal Networking Gadget Package”), is nothing but the new discovery, which is under developing stage by NEC Corporation. P-ISM is a gadget package including five functions: a CPU pen, communication pen with a cellular phone function, virtual keyboard, a very small projector, and a camera. P-ISM’s are connected with one another through short-range

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    of his family band Jackson 5, pushed the envelope in music, stage costumes, dance moves, videos and record-setting album sales. The Jackson family from Gary Indiana were a rags-to-riches tale that was built on sacrifice, talent and hard work. Michael was born into the family of children Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, La Toya, Marlon, Randy and Janet. Their father Joseph and mother Katherine encouraged and provided guidance with their careers. With his brother already members of a band Michael joined

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