A Pint of Plain
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March 17, 2025
Social scientists studying the impact of the Internet, social media, and other digital information sharing present an increasingly disturbing picture of American democracy's health. The current media ecosystem generates an anemic dearth of so-called “high-quality”…
By the Numbers
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February 17, 2025
I have officially completed a postmortem on the Working Musician Podcast® and was about to close the book, save all the notes to Dropbox and a trusty USB flash drive, pour three fingers of uisce…
The Shepherd of the Hills
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February 10, 2025
On this date, 98 years ago, "The Shepherd of the Hills" became the first song performed on two continents on the same day. Even more remarkably, the performances happened just after the song was…
Data Dignity
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February 3, 2025
Technology has increasingly impacted the music business, leading to job displacement for professional musicians in more than a few ways. Historically, the industry has faced similar challenges. For example, one-fifth of the American Federation of…
Elegy
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January 20, 2025
It may seem an unlikely medium for a tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., but Frederic Hand's "Elegy for a King," composed in 1971, is a beautiful work for solo guitar. For…