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Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: Ulf WigerUlf Wiger Date: Sep 9, 2008 08:42
Slobodan Blazeski skrev:
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> So if the market is buying it I don't see what's the
> problem. You want to be a star go mainstream. If that includes
> mumbling while standing on your head with female wrestlers in the
> background get use to it. Else stop whining, you choosed to play
> something that's music for you but the masses aren't accepting it.
> They might be sheeps, but they're sheeps with money and you won't get
> any of their money playing jazz, classic or whatever the chosen few
> listen. Aren't people surprised when they found out that Armstrong was
> actually a jazz icon. They only heard of him because of what a
> wondeful world? And I doubt you're better jazzer than Satchmo.
In most art forms, the relationship between quality and
profit is weak to say the least. Indeed, singing teachers
for example have even identified a new type of singer,
"the 'untrained professional singer', who is among the
highest paid of all performers, but lacks the most rudimentary
skills of the singing craft"*. Actual skill in the art is
neither a necessary nor sufficient criterion for success.
It used to at least be a necessary condition...
But isn't this getting a bit O.T. for these newsgroups?
BR,
Ulf W
* Richard Miller, National Schools of Singing, 1997
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