Bootlegging in the Music Industry: A Note

This paper analyzes bootlegging of music, i.e. the unauthorized recording and distribution of previously unreleased music (e.g. a live concert). In particular, we investigate whether, and if so, how this illegal activity may hurt bands and record companies. Bootlegging is different from pirating, where legal releases are illegally copied and sold, because it adds to the product variety. It turns out that welfare implications of bootlegging are decisively different from those of pirating—bootlegged music does not crowd out legal sales.     

从中美影片看中西文化及艺术的差异

从中美两部题材相近的影片中可以看出两国在文化艺术方面的差异。同是表现家庭、婚姻、情感的影片,中国影片处处洋溢着生活的乐趣和家庭的幸福,美国影片则完全深入到人物的内心深处去关照现实人生的生存状态,充满了人文精神;在艺术手法方面中国影片多运用中近景形成连贯跳跃的节奏,美国影片则运用了数量较多的景深镜头和中全景表现人物内心世界。在整体表现手法上美国影片有许多值得中国影片借鉴之处。     

谈公安院校武术套路教学的基本原则

公安院校的武术套路教学的原则是依据教学规律,从实际出发的行为准则。其基本原则是:必须遵循教师的主导作用与学员的自觉积极性相结合;直观教学与启发思维相结合;系统性与专题教学相结合;巩固提高与强化训练相结合;充分发挥教与学的积极性,提高教学质量。     

论生态女性文化批评的建构和指向

目前,不少有意义的共同关心的话语成为中西方思想界几乎同步思考的问题。文章从女性艺术的精神生态、中西方文化的话语资源和生态女性文化批评的文化理念建构三个方面切入问题的实质,强调在21世纪的全球化时代,人类应该重新思考自己的文化命运,在生态意识和生态文化逐渐被人们认可的今天,大力倡导和建构生态女性文化批评。     

Is LEO ‘Orwellian'? Earnings,Willetts, OfS,Creative Arts,and the Cost of Higher Education

The cost of higher education to the taxpayer is determined in part by the choice of subject and institution made by students. The Augar report on higher education noted that there was an oversupply of ‘low value' courses and called on the government to ‘bear down on low value courses' and ‘target courses better aligned with the economy's needs'.¹ Until recently there was no reliable data to identify such courses or the institutions supplying them. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has utilised recently available longitudinal education data on earnings, courses and institutions to rectify this deficiency. Many of the lowest earning courses are in the creative arts. Not everyone is happy with using earnings to measure the value of courses. This paper discusses the IFS estimates of graduate earnings and the public cost of higher education, as well as the criticisms of using earnings data to measure the value of courses and institutions.     

周恩来与抗战美术

周恩来十分重视抗战美术宣传，直接领导了“国统区”的抗战美术工作。他关心美术家的工作和生活。团结和争取“国统区”的广大美术工作者站在共产党领导的抗日民族统一战线立场上，维护和巩固了美术界的统一战线。他积极促成了国统区与解放区的美术交流，为推动抗战美术运动的繁荣和发展起到了至关重要的作用。     

The MFA in Arts Management

Arts administration/management (AA/M) has evolved to the point of emerging as a mature academic field, increasingly institutionalized within higher education and demanding a larger and more highly credentialed faculty. Examining Master of Fine Arts (MFA) AA/M programs in North America, this brief study asks whether the MFA can serve as the viable credential for academically trained arts managers. The analysis suggests that no consensus about which advanced degree best reflects academic expertise relevant to all components of the field has been reached and that standards remain too unclear for the MFA to serve as a viable credential across artistic disciplines.