Cultural Omnivores must truly be dead…
The shrinking Cultural Omnivores issue is an interesting one since they functioned primarily as “swing voters” in the realm of audiences. This sub-population tend to go to both highbrow and […]
Category Archives: Diversity
The Pan African Orchestra
Occasionally, I do random searches for Non-Western Orchestras and came across this piece, “The Orchestra in the African Context,” by Fred Onovwerosuoke (1999). I was curious about some of the […]
Post-Pop: Aging and Fragmentation in Pop Culture Audiences
Last week I read a New York Times piece from 1993 by Stephen Holden which talked about pop music audience fragmentation. There are some interesting tidbits such as the opening […]
Borrowed materials in music or Musical Appropriation
Composer, Alex Temple, has written an interesting piece regarding borrowed material in music. I’ll quote the relevant section here: [T]he response I wound up thinking about the most is actually […]
The Classical Music “Crisis” and Millennials
I was reading a few posts about Millennials in Classical Music at Catherine Starek’s blog, Mezzaphonically Speaking, and it occurred to me that I haven’t spent as much time taking […]
