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  Know Your Music, Know Yourself
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  When I was growing up, my father often played Paul Simon’s Graceland album on Sunday afternoons. The songs take a musical journey down to the southern United States and across the Atlantic to Africa with the accompaniment of diverse musical groups including Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Years...

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  Apple's iCloud: Will Cloud Players Change Music?
  Topic by Ian A McManus

  Cloud services allow users to store documents on a server rather than their own hard drives, which lets them access these files from any computer as well as various mobile devices. Specifically, music cloud services allow users to upload their music libraries to a cloud drive so that they can...

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  Auto-Tune Moving Back Stage, Slowly
  Topic by Nora G Hertel

  It’s been three years since Jay-Z declared the “Death of Auto-Tune” on his album The Blueprint 3, but the pitch-enhancing software still features prominently in popular songs and on YouTube. Will.i.am, member of the Black Eyed Peas and judge on NBC's "The Voice," recently admitted to a...

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  Hot Dance Moves: Where Have They Gone?
  Topic by Marta Segal Block

  From The Twist and The Mashed Potato  in the 1960s to The Hustle and  The Bump in the 1970s;   The Electric Slide  in the 1980s; and  The   Macarena in the early 1990s,  it used to seem like group dances with specific moves dominated the dance floor. Today's dance moves are much more...

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  Staying Safe: Festival and Concert Safety Standards
  Topic by Enelda Butler

  On August 18, 2011, a stage collapsed at the Belgian music festival Pukkelpop, killing five people and injuring at least 50 concert attendees. Several other stage accidents have occurred around the world during the past few years. The Pukkelpop incident is the second major concert accident...

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  Leadership Lessons from The Jazz Masters
  Article by John Edward Hasse

  Jazz may not be an obvious source of inspiration for leaders, but leadership at its best is like jazz. Both are ephem...