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The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) was formed in June 2000 as a not-for-profit think tank to tackle this problem, advocating new business models, technologies and policies that would advance the cause of both musicians and citizens. Much of the work the FMC has done has focused on documenting the structures of imbalance and inequity that impede the development of an American musicians' middle class, and translating legislative-speak into language that musicians and citizens can understand. Radio is a public resource managed on citizens' behalf by the federal government. This was established in 1934 through the passage of the Communications Act, which created a regulatory body, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and laid the ground rules for the regulation of radio. Although changes were made to limits on ownership and FCC regulatory control in years hence, the Communications Act of 1934 remained essentially intact until it was thoroughly over-hauled in 1996 with the passage of the Telecommunications Act.Numerous predictions were made regarding its effect on the radio industry. There was a prediction based on a theory posited by a 1950s economist named Peter Steiner that increased ownership consolidation on the local level would lead to a subsequent increase in the number of radio format choices available to the listening public. While the effects of deregulation have been widely studied and discussed, scrutiny is focused on the profitability of the radio industry. But the effect of increased corporate profitability on citizens is rarely, if ever, discussed. Radical deregulation of the radio industry allowed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 has not benefited the public. Instead, it has led to less competition, fewer viewpoints and less diversity in programming. Substantial ethnic, regional and economic populations are not provided the services to which they are entitled. The FMC firmly believe that the music industry is fundamentally anti-artist.

This article presents information on the issue of health care in the U.S. According to the author the company dominates the field of investor-owned hospitals is the Columbia Hospital Corporation which was founded in 1987 and bought its first hospitals in June 1988, in El Paso. Six years later, after a tidal wave of mergers and acquisitions, it had become Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, headquartered in Nashville. Columbia now owns 348 hospitals in thirty-eight states, and its management talks of soon owning 500 hospitals--10 per cent of the nation's total.

This article focuses on entertainment industry. The plot of Tian Zhuangzhuang's motion picture "The Blue Kite," incorporates three marriages, one betrayal, one slow descent into blindness, a fatal accident, a death from overwork, two beatings, three years of famine and four trips to China's labor camps. Beginning in November 1993, the BBC's Channel 2 began to broadcast a sort of nightly, real-life soap opera, direct from Bosnia. Titled "Sarajevo: A Street Under Siege," the two-minute program aired every night before the 10:30 P.M. newscast, bringing English viewers a day-by-day account of how the siege was affecting a group of ordinary citizens. The music album "Backbeat," doesn't have that much to do with the Beatles.

In this article, the author counts developments in country-club segments of Alabama concerning moves towards desegregation of blacks to these clubs. It specially considers works of Hall Thompson, a Birmingham, Alabama, golf-course expert, who refused to be pressured into admitting blacks to the country club he built. Soon after he thus gallantly declared in June 1990, his club underwent emergency desegregation to spare the Professional Golfers' Association Championship, held there in August. The 300-member Augusta National is the spiritual descendant of Georgia's old Jekyll Island Club, founded in 1886 as a winter haven for J.P. Morgan, William Vanderbilt, Joseph Pulitzer and fifty other industrial suzerains. In Birmingham, Alabama, the connection between country clubs and capitalism is equally vivid.

Drummer Ed Blackwell spans an astonishing number of musical worlds. That's partly because New Orleans, where he was born on October 10, 1929, tends to develop multifaceted musiciansâ

The article profiles media baron Rienhard Mohn. It was in 1946 that he established Bertelsmann AG, one of the largest media corporations in the world. He had just spent more than two years as a prisoner of war in Concordia, Kansas. The family business, which had been publishing Protestant hymnals and religious pamphlets since 1835, was an empty shell. Mohn rooted about in the postwar ruins, pulling old books from the rubble of libraries and stores, bartering anything he could for waste paper that would hold print.

The article presents information on publishing and publications. So many good books have been coming out of Houston's Arte Publico Press. Publisher Nicola´s Kanellos, Puerto Rican by background and a New Yorker by birth, has built up Arte Publico from a literary magazine he founded in 1972. Originally called Revista Chicano-Riquefla, the magazine has since changed its name to The Americas Review, without altering its purpose. One publish Hispanic Writing from all of the traditions that are present in the United States-Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban.

John Curry, the British-born figure skater, made a rare Manhattan appearance in May 1988, performing at Sky Rink as one of the guest stars on a one-time-only program hosted by the Ice Theatre of New York. According to "The New York Times," Ice Theatre is a nonprofit skating company founded in 1984 with the aim of establishing "a new repertory on ice." Curry presented two solos, which together occupied less than ten minutes of the two hours. They swept by like ten seconds. Although he served up leaps and spins, he never offered them seriatim.

For small publishers to keep their books in print, they must have both a remarkable loyalty to their writers and a Zen master's inability to imagine doing anything other than what they've been doing. These two qualities stand out in Jim Haining, the proprietor of Salt Lick Press, a man of gentle manners and Gibraltar-like steadfastness. Haining began Salt Lick in 1969, as a student at Quincy College in Illinois and is still running it today from his home in Austin, Texas. Over the next eighteen months, Haining plans to change that statistic by getting his entire list back into print.