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Schachinger, Christian
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
How the music industry is exploiting the Internet
Christian Schachinger describes how the music industry has learned to exploit the amateur image of online platforms like YouTube. He cites the 24-year-old American songwriter Marié Digby as an example: "The songs she recorded in her living room and launched on YouTube in the summer of 2007 may look authentic with the shaky camera and the nursery room guitar, but she had in fact signed a lucrative contract for them with Hollywood Records (a subsidiary of the Disney company) back in 2005. So as far as credibility and authenticity are concerned we should exercise caution even when it comes to the hip-hop genre, which has become laughabled as the result of its never-ending onslaught clichés of gangsta, turbocapitalism and porn."
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A late tribute to Doris Lessing
Christian Schachinger thinks it's scandalous that Doris Lessing is only the eleventh woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. "It may well be that even for the 87-year-old English writer the Nobel Prize comes too late, but at least it's consistent - consistent with the Swedish Academy's policy, which doesn't always focus on the artistic merits but rather on the politics. This year's choice of prize-winner is testimony to the academy's double bad conscience. It honours not only a political woman, but also a feminist - albeit often against her will. The decision also revives a long forgotten, unfortunate term: 'women's literature'. Back in the 1970s this term led to involuntary marginalisation. The enemy in bed refused to touch pivotal feminist novels like Lessing's 'The Golden Notebook' with a bargepole, never mind analyse them."
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