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Nancy Weiss Hanrahan

Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University.
soan.gmu.edu/people/nhanraha
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Big Data, Little Music

March 24, 2014 • by Nancy Weiss Hanrahan

Established musicians are speaking up about the state of the music world, and they are not happy. They report that there’s no money available to make music, and no money to be made from it. Some have blamed fans for killing the business, by insisting on getting music for free. ...

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