Death of the Musical Long Tail
An intriguing piece about the growing disparity of recorded music revenue popped up a couple days ago at the Music Industry Blog. The post is based on a consulting report, […]
Category Archives: Arts Funding
Subsidizing Sports or Subsidizing the Arts
This! Fair treatment for writers and artists is an even more difficult matter, which will ultimately require a major change in how we think about support for the arts. Fortunately, […]
How Academia (and the Arts) Resembles a Drug Gang
Originally posted on Alexandre Afonso:
In 2000, economist Steven Levitt and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics about the internal wage structure of a…
WPA Federal Music Project and the CWA’s contribution to Orchestras
In my post about the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) I took a look at how many orchestras were funded prior to the WPA Federal Music Project and the WPA […]
The Classical Music Crisis during the Great Depression
In a recent post I described how the Classical Music recording industry practically floundered during the Great Depression. What was the live performing scene like? Looks like it was pretty […]
