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OT: Star System Was: RE: Another interesting article
> Sounds to me like an extension of the same complaint that
> resulted from
> the advent of radio and recording technologies. "Recordings
> have made
> music a commodity and lowers the public's appreciation of live music."
>
Hey Bill - while I do certainly appreciate the many, many joys of recording
and overdubbing and firmly believe that it's an overall positive, that
doesn't mean that it had no negative effects. From a pseudo-sociological
point of view, my (unresearched and uninformed but intuitive) belief is
that
recordings took a locally-based folk/troubadour system of music that had
predominated throughout history and transformed it into the star system we
have today. That's not entirely a positive thing, although it has positive
aspects. I think that just now, perhaps, we're on the verge of a
decentralization revolution caused by the radically decreasing price of
recording technology, combined with the slow-motion crumbling of the majors
caused by file sharing. Things could get interesting.
Warren