It is hardly an exaggeration to suggest that we are currently in a phase of technological development that differs in nature, scale, and sheer speed of impact from any that has gone before. A seemingly technical change - from analog to digital format - in the manner in which entertainment products are stored and replayed, combined with the "communication revolution" associated with the Internet, has created an extraordinary array of new ways in which music …showed first 75 words of 2258 total…

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