…Rome, much as is the situation in economics. So what is called “classical music” is something very broad, the music that is not popular music, rock or jazz or country…

…business, someone checks the “informed delivery” app on their phone, a hand uses a computer mouse to buy postage and affix a label to a package, a young girl slides…

…a slide projector and screen and (c) a way to label and store all the images. Online music streaming: NO. I grew up with vinyl and tapes (reel-to-reel, cassettes and…

…every lewd or offensive music or fashion statement that otherwise contained strong language was labeled and shunned puritanically. The result was that more albums were sold that were labeled highly…

…as it had developed in the fifties. For the next twenty two years it was going to be our music, our fashion, our sensibility that would rule the day. Now…

…services made affordable by corporate and personal greed, and personal immiseration. People who can’t afford to buy something with a union label attached outnumber people who can, and vastly outnumber…