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Music News 

Want to take a university course in Drake? Here’s your chance.

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Creative School, Dalton Higgins, Drake, Hip-Hop Studies, Ryerson, The Weeknd

Toronto’s Ryerson University (or whatever it’s soon going to be called) is about to offer a course in Drake. Actually,

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Music Industry 

Music Canada has launched an equity, diversity, and inclusion survey. Can you help?

May 27, 2021May 27, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Music Canada, Ryerson, Survey

Music Canada, the group that represented the recorded music industry in this country, has created a new survey seeking to

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Music News 

The Sam the Record Man Sign Rises Again!

December 3, 2017December 2, 2017 Alan Cross 3 Comments Ryerson, Sam the Record Man, Toronto, Yonge-Dundas Square

Wait. What’s that above Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown Toronto? It’s…it’s the SAM THE RECORD MAN SIGN! After years in storage

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Music Industry 

Some Students at Ryerson are Working on a New Collaborative Platform for the Canadian Music Industry

September 21, 2017September 20, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Crescendo, RTA, Ryerson

A group of seven students in the RTA program at Ryerson University in Toronto are working on a new collaboration

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Music News 

The Refurbished Sam the Record Man Sign: It’s Almost Ready

July 29, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Ryerson, Sam the Record Man

For decades, the spinning record (and after 1987, records) on the Sam the Record Man sign were one of the

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Music Industry 

Got a Bitch About the Way Concert Tickets are Sold? The Ontario Attorney General Wants to Hear from You

March 1, 2017March 1, 2017 Alan Cross 1 Comment Bots, Concert Tickets, Ontario, Ryerson

Just before Christmas, a couple of nice people from the Ontario Attorney General’s Office came to see me about the

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Music History 

Will Canadian Hip Hop History Be Taught in Canadian Schools? It Will If This Guy Has Anything to Do with It

February 2, 2017 Alan Cross 1 Comment Hip-hop, Ryerson

There was a time when study of any sort of popular culture, especially–gasp!–the music everyday people listen to–was not just

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Radio 

My Ryerson University Lecture on the Future of Radio

March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Allan Slaight Broadcast Institute, Future of Radio, Rogers Communication Centre, Ryerson

In my position as this year’s Broadcaster in Residence at for the Allan Slaight Broadcast Institute, I was asked to

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Radio 

Upcoming Panel to Discuss Diversity in Radio

March 1, 2016February 29, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Diversity, Radio, Ryerson

On the heels of the debate over diversity in Hollywood, Ryerson University is going examine the situation in radio. From

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Tech 

A Celebration of Music Technology in Toronto (and New York and LA)

September 2, 2014 Alan Cross 0 Comments IMSTA, Music Software, Ryerson, Toronto

I’m amazed at the growing number of conferences devoted to the collision of music and technology. This, of course, is

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