Entertaiment in a Down Economy

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With business down in many sectors of the entertainment industry, consumers are buying music at record stores and downloading it from the Internet, swapping songs with friends or loading their iPods with independent recording artists. Entertainment takes many forms, from the art of storytelling (such as Scheherazade, from the Persian professional storytelling tradition) to orchestral music by composers like Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel and Szymanowski; to films by directors such as Pasolini and Bergman; to innovative video games.