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Comment on File-Sharing, Profits, and Innovation by E-PARASITE Act: Bad News Across the Border « Celtic Ryouma

E-PARASITE Act: Bad News Across the Border « Celtic Ryouma — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:44:53 +0000

[...] and MPAA have been pushing the idea that technology is bad for the last decade. Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, they argue that file-sharing has decreased recording sales significantly, and that technologies [...]

Comment on How cosmopolitan is Nashville? by The Changing Geography of Pop Music – Clonevideos Official Blog

The Changing Geography of Pop Music – Clonevideos Official Blog — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:09:22 +0000

[...] Nashville lacks the diversity of genres found in LA and NY, according to an analysis of MySpace data conducted by my colleague Dan Silver, it has large concentrations of commercial [...]

Comment on What Purpose Should Government Funding of Music Serve? by Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:37:30 +0000

Quick clarification: The point about bureaucracy stifling creativity wasn’t that it would reproduce market homogeneity (if that actually exists). It is that there are many ways to become homogenous/uncreative, with different dynamics, and bureaucracy is one of those. Big Bureaucracy uncreativity is different from Big Business uncreativity.

Comment on What Purpose Should Government Funding of Music Serve? by Kim de Laat

Kim de Laat — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:38:16 +0000

Thanks Dan.

Is FACTOR hurting others? That would be difficult to quantify. I can perhaps do no better that to suggest that it is possible. Because much of FACTOR funding comes from private broadcasters, it would make sense, from the broadcaster’s point of view, to allocate more radio airplay to FACTOR recipients. The radio airplay effectively acts as free promotion for the FACTOR artist/band in question, and may help broadcasters see a bigger return on their investment (not to mention, it helps broadcasters meet the CanCon requirement that 35% of the music they play be Canadian).

So, it could be that other Canadian artists are getting less radio airplay, and less exposure, than FACTOR recipients. Of course, I don’t mean to suggest that broadcasters actually profit from FACTOR recipients who are able to reimburse their loans; I mean only to suggest that it must be nice to help promote and see the acts that you provide funding to, reach a wider audience.

With regards to whether we could expect anything else: my hunch is that many might still view Government patronage as a means of protecting the arts from market forces – not as a tool that effectively reproduces market forces. So, people holding that view might expect something else from arts subsidization. Furthermore, if we analyze music funding alongside policies relating to multiculturalism, we may notice an inherent contradiction in the stated aims of both Government projects that would again make us question whether we could expect anything else. I hope to get to that in another post.

Comment on What Purpose Should Government Funding of Music Serve? by Dan

Dan — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:50:04 +0000

Great post, Kim! I guess one question to start with would be: is it the case that FACTOR, by subsidizing mainstream acts, is hurting others? That is, do we know of cases where some potentially ground breaking work did not occur because of FACTOR, and how much of such work continues to be made despite the existence of FACTOR?

Relatedly: how could we expect anything else? It is in the nature of bureaucracies, you could say, to require predictability and conformity, not only because of the investment recouping motive, but because that’s what bureaucracies always require (forms, applications, safety, etc.). So, on this argument, a government agency giving grants for musical non-conformity would be, well, not very likely to succeed.

Comment on On Bohemia by Adam

Adam — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:55:34 +0000

Hello? Does Daniel Silver still live at this address?

Comment on On Bohemia by Adam

Adam — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 08:27:36 +0000

I’m interested in reading your elaborations on this topic. When will you be posting more?

I really want to see your list of the most Bohemian communities.

Comment on Mariah Carey and the new music economy by Stuart Truncellito

Stuart Truncellito — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 20:23:55 +0000

I saw the pictures of Mariah Carey when she sang at the Today show. She looks great and happy. I just love her so much

Comment on Mariah Carey and the new music economy by Malik Mcvay

Malik Mcvay — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:16:55 +0000

I love Mariah Carey’s songs..shes so beautiful and gifted…she reminds me some ordinary people who i love more than my own life…i love her songs

Comment on On Bohemia by Dan

Dan — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:01:03 +0000

thanks for the comment! Please check out our post on Atlanta too. Would love to hear your thoughts.

http://music.martinprosperity.org/2010/03/25/urban-economics-atlanta-the-rap-and-rb-capital-of-the-world/