No phone, no address book, no music: It was as though I'd left the modern world behind at Sunan airport and stepped back in time to a seemingly prehistoric analog era.

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Knapp, 38, no longer considers herself a member of the Christian music world.

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But nearly a quarter of a century after it announced its arrival with Video Killed The Radio Star, MTV shows no signs of losing its grip on the world's young music consumers.

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But, suppose Antigua does in fact proceed to make U.S.-copyrighted movies and music available at nominal or even no cost to anyone in the world with an Internet connection.

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The union, which puts artists ranging from Aerosmith to Britney Spears all under one roof, made Sony BMG the No. 2 record company in the world, just behind Vivendi 's Universal Music Group .

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We've still got an unbelievable amount of talent in the music world, and so from a culture standpoint, it's no longer the Motown sound, but it's a lot of gritty stuff that's out there right now and we have to accept that because the talent is here.

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Fischer-Dieskau, who died on May 18th, at the age of eighty-six, loomed so large in the world of classical music that he became something like a city monument a statue that no longer fully registers with the crowds hurrying by.

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What good is a world when we have all these snazzy machines and we listen to music for free but we have no gainful employment and kids dropping out of school?

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