Dear List: Issues of musical style aside, Dowland, as performed by Sting does indeed exist within a popular music system, by both its economic and transmission factors. As stated in the article ³Economic and Transmission Factors as Essential Elements in the Definition of Folk, Art, and Pop Music² by Gregory D. Booth and Terry Lee Kuhn (Musical Quarterly 1990, vol. 74(3): 411-438), popular music systems work within a system of indirect patronage. Art music, on the other hand, works within a system of direct patronage. When music originally created under a patronage system (much of the music before Beethoven) is later produced and disseminated under a system of indirect patronage (Any classical recording available through Amazon or Virgin records, for example), the music falls under the domain of popular music, despite its art music origins. So, David's pupil is correct to believe that this is pop music, as is Roger Norrington's recordings of Beethoven and the lot.
Jorge Torres On 9/27/06 3:29 AM, "LGS-Europe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday music school: guitar pupil of 14 years old. Started on the lute at > the age of 7, switched to guitar some 2 years ago. Mainly interested in pop. > Read the Sting-plays-lute, Sting-says-pop-is-dead and Dowland-will-save-pop > stories on the net. My pupil thinks it's all very cool but considers the > Dowland-by-Sting as pop. He might want to play some Dowland again because of > this, perhaps pick up his lute, even? > > David > > > > **************************** > David van Ooijen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.davidvanooijen.nl > **************************** > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
