Death of the Pop Music Industry and the decline of Popular Culture
John Loken, a former record label marketing exec posted an intriguing blog last February (2011) titled “The Death of Pop Music?” where he talks about the decline of, well, Pop […]
Tag Archives: Classical Music
How audiences can’t save the arts, or sports, or pop music, or…
Since the 60s live audiences haven’t really sustained much of anything. The economic infrastructure that creates ‘sustainability’ for Classical Music, the Sports Industry, and the Pop Music Industry since the […]
The Pop Music Industry and the Cost Disease
“[C]ost disease studies usually select opera, theater, and the symphony orchestra. Cost disease proponents display an unjustified bias towards ‘high culture.’ We also should consider today’s cultural winners, such as […]
An alternative view of Orchestral Musician Compensation according to Flanagan
So we’re often told that orchestras run deficits. Sure, ok–but how often do we hear that orchestras in countries with a higher level of subsidies actually run bigger performance deficits? […]
What if there’s really no “decline” in Classical Music audiences?
So a few weeks ago I was playing around with numbers, namely I was playing around with the numbers given by various surveys regarding arts participation as well as population. […]
