<div dir="ltr">I think that what often is forgotten regarding music is that the idea of the big artist/industry etc. is a fairly recent innovation.  Certainly, there have always been famous musicians but I see music returning to the state it was in before the 1930s when everything was more or less "folk" minus a few notable elite cultural exceptions.<div>
<br></div><div>James R. Coplin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Ron West <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ronwest@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronwest@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The more the merrier.<br>
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Jay Vaughan <<a href="mailto:seclorum@mac.com">seclorum@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Nice article making the blog-rounds today:<br>
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> <a href="http://rocknerd.co.uk/2013/09/13/culture-is-not-about-aesthetics-punk-rock-is-now-enforced-by-law/" target="_blank">http://rocknerd.co.uk/2013/09/13/culture-is-not-about-aesthetics-punk-rock-is-now-enforced-by-law/</a><br>

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> tl;dr- the music industry isn't dying because of piracy - its dying because of competition.  In a nutshell: there are too many people trying to be professional musicians.<br>
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> What thinks the -bar?<br>
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> j.<br>
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