Special Thanksgiving Topic: The Day/Way Music Died

THE WAY (OR DAY MUSIC DIED)
1. Questions about Flash animations?
2. Overview of Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur
3. Music as the Toy at the Bottom of the Cornflakes Box

4. view 2004's "The Way Music Died"

In the recording studios of Los Angeles and the boardrooms of New York, they say the record business has been hit by a perfect storm: a convergence of industry-wide consolidation, Internet theft, and artistic drought. The effect has been the loss of billions of dollars, thousands of jobs, and that indefinable quality that once characterized American pop music. (more) »

"It's a classic example of art and commerce colliding and nobody wins," says Nic Harcourt, music director at Los Angeles's KCRW-FM. "It's just a train wreck."

In "The Way the Music Died," FRONTLINE follows the trajectory of the recording industry from its post-Woodstock heyday in the 1970s and 1980s to what one observer describes as a "hysteria" of mass layoffs and bankruptcy in 2004.

5. Reading Due December 1st From Cult of the Amateur- The Day Music Died [side b]