Of course, my applause would look better if I hadn't made a total mess of the LJ user tag. Oops. To justify this extra post, I'd better write a little more.
I think the state of the music industry is simply a reflection of the way the rest of the culture world goes about things, that focuses on consumerism rather than participation. e.g. As John Carey has pointed out, massive arts grants go to theatres and to opera, while things like painting and drama courses in, for instance, prisons - courses that encourage their participants own creativity, let it express itself - are starved of cash. Though this whole paragraph seems rather superfluous, since it's critcising high rather than pop culture, which is the subject of your post. Oops, again!
I can't remember who it was - someone with rather Marxist leanings, I expect - who thought that all culture derives from the proletariat.
Of course, McLaren is perfectly right if he says that this generation 'owns' its own culture - which it does, in the sense that it forks out large amounts of money for it! - as you say.
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I think the state of the music industry is simply a reflection of the way the rest of the culture world goes about things, that focuses on consumerism rather than participation. e.g. As John Carey has pointed out, massive arts grants go to theatres and to opera, while things like painting and drama courses in, for instance, prisons - courses that encourage their participants own creativity, let it express itself - are starved of cash. Though this whole paragraph seems rather superfluous, since it's critcising high rather than pop culture, which is the subject of your post. Oops, again!
I can't remember who it was - someone with rather Marxist leanings, I expect - who thought that all culture derives from the proletariat.
Of course, McLaren is perfectly right if he says that this generation 'owns' its own culture - which it does, in the sense that it forks out large amounts of money for it! - as you say.