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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Cawein: How to build a thriving music scene in your city

Unscramble the Blue Letters

To do that, first, we've got to know what we've got. That means identifying and quantifying our astess. We need to know them backward and forward, from who and what and where they are to what their impact is on the economy. Let's count our recording studios and our record labels, our hitsrioc landmarks and our hard-core punk clubs. We should count mnltohy free jazz ntgihs and weekly folk jams, music schools, artist development, instrument shops, every lathe and every luthier, music museums open year round and music fevasltis open just one weneekd a year.

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To do that, first, we've got to know what we've got. That means identifying and quantifying our ______. We need to know them backward and forward, from who and what and where they are to what their impact is on the economy. Let's count our recording studios and our record labels, our ________ landmarks and our hard-core punk clubs. We should count _______ free jazz ______ and weekly folk jams, music schools, artist development, instrument shops, every lathe and every luthier, music museums open year round and music _________ open just one _______ a year.

Solution

  1. historic
  2. nights
  3. assets
  4. weekend
  5. festivals
  6. monthly

Original Text

To do that, first, we've got to know what we've got. That means identifying and quantifying our assets. We need to know them backward and forward, from who and what and where they are to what their impact is on the economy. Let's count our recording studios and our record labels, our historic landmarks and our hard-core punk clubs. We should count monthly free jazz nights and weekly folk jams, music schools, artist development, instrument shops, every lathe and every luthier, music museums open year round and music festivals open just one weekend a year.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
music city 3
music venues 3
music cities 2
engaged audience 2
recording studios 2
live music 2

Important Words

  1. artist
  2. assets
  3. clubs
  4. count
  5. development
  6. economy
  7. festivals
  8. folk
  9. free
  10. historic
  11. identifying
  12. impact
  13. instrument
  14. jams
  15. jazz
  16. labels
  17. landmarks
  18. lathe
  19. luthier
  20. means
  21. monthly
  22. museums
  23. music
  24. nights
  25. open
  26. punk
  27. quantifying
  28. record
  29. recording
  30. schools
  31. shops
  32. studios
  33. weekend
  34. weekly
  35. year