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From ABBA to Led Zeppelin: using music to teach economics
From ABBA to Led Zeppelin: using music to teach economics

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Ghost Town - The Specials

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This town, is coming like a ghost town
All the clubs have been closed down
This place, is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
too much fighting on the dance floor

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Assignment:

The Specials sing about "all the clubs have been closed down". What has caused this? That is what factors have shifted demand for clubs and which have shifted supply? Draw representative demand and supply curves. In the introduction to the video the announcer says it is "1981 and a song that conjures up the era". How does this song reflect that time? (P.S. The Specials are a British band and Top of the Pops was a British music show on TV).

[Provided by Simon Medcalfe - Augusta State University]

By: Joshua Hall
02.11.10 · Permalink
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