Retailers are fine-tuning their stores’ playlists as they wake up to the power of music to communicate a brand message and put shoppers in the mood to spend. One shopper’s favorite song can make another shopper cringe.
The Practical Absurdity Of Selling Detroit’s DIA Art
“Michiganders might remember that in the 1920s and ’30s, the cash-hungry Soviet government sold off Russia’s art treasures, dispersing them to other countries. Today, that episode is viewed as a national tragedy.”
FTC Wonders If Music Teachers Are Anti Competitive?
“The association’s sin, according to the feds, rested in its code of ethics. The code lays out ideals for members to follow–a commitment to students, colleagues, society. Tucked into this worthy document was a provision calling on teachers to respect their colleagues’ studios, and not actively recruit students from other teachers.”
How Do You Get Toddlers Into Orchestral Music? Use A Penguin, Of Course
“We have to be a bit careful of the way music and story go together. … It can ignite immediate joy or sadness or fear in young children.”
Hollywood Pushes Obama On Anti-Piracy
“During the meeting, the president encouraged the entertainment executives to search for common ground with the technology industry and offered the assistance of his administration to help bridge a still sizable divide between the two.”