At 10:30 PM -0600 3/7/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting how much confidence a group of musicians is putting in record
company executives to know and deliver "what's good." Who here has not had
the experience of having music thrown in the trash without being
considered by some executive type or other gatekeeper? Certainly not a way
to discern its quality. When you realize what kind of marketing philosophy
drives so many artistic executives ("if they bought it once let's sell it
to 'em again") it's absolutely specious to assert that it's artistic
quality that moves them. I'm very thankful to find the independent artists
of all types who can get their work out to me and the rest of the public
without being censored/straightjacketed by some who "knows better." It
does occasionally happen.
Hi, Aaron, and please don't misread my comments. I was simply
describing The Way It Used To Be, since I was deeply immersed in it
back in the '60s, and pointing out both the good and bad of the
emerging paradigm. And yes, it was a kind of censorship. That went
on the negative side of the ledger. But yes, they at least had the
opportunity to exercise high standards. That went on the positive
side. And yes, of course, their definition of "quality" meant
"marketability." How could it be otherwise? Unless you're happy
with believing that "If the music business was a business it couldn't
stay in business!"
Boils down to, there's good and bad in everything.
John
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John R. Howell
Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A 24061-0240
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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