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Month: March 2011

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Nothing New, Please.

I just returned from the Public Radio Music Conference, which despite it’s encompassing name, is really just about Classical stations.  In fact, I was the only non-classical person there! That said, music stations of any stripe have much more in common than they have differences, be they classical, jazz, AAA, or for that matter, commercial […]

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What are you doing here?

I’ve been in New York for a couple of days attending the Music Personnel in Public Radio conference. Because… Well, KCCK is a jazz radio station, and jazz is music, right? It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that most public music stations ate classical music stations, and to say that this group […]

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They Can’t Do This To Me, I’m…. Denny Green

We all love to hear the musical sound of our own names, which perhaps can partly explain why, when I first saw an episode of “Boston Legal,” many years ago, my hero William Shatner had to repeat his character’s name several times (which as I recall, was also an intrinsic dialogue element), before I realized he […]

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On Dentists Named Dennis

An article is making the Twitter rounds which discusses “implicit egotism.” The authors suggest that implicit egotism leads us to prefer things that are connected to ourselves, that might have the same letters as those in our names, for example. The writers’ research turned up the fact that the city of St. Louis has a […]

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