some thoughts on the decline of urban music retail
I had a brief but interesting Twitter conversation yesterday triggered by Maura Johnston’s link to a New York Times article about how J&R Music World, a venerable downtown NYC retailer of music, hardware and technology, is abandoning its CD sales. already happened to fans of all music across US… MT @nytimes NY classical fans running...
why I have two Twitter accounts
I set up a personal Twitter account, @LeonardNevarez, to accompany my original @MusicalUrbanism account. In explaining why, this is a good moment to review the evolution of my Musical Urbanism project. In the fall of 2007, I introduced a new co-taught course, Musical Urbanism, as a senior seminar at Vassar College’s Urban Studies Program. The...