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In Reply to: It's Over posted by ZooDog on April 18, 2007 at 13:07:46:
Among the many conclusions to draw from this piece, the one that strikes me most is the portability thing. It's another version of music in the background: meaning that music is something to do other things to: work, walk around, drive. It's not something to sit down and listen to. That makes sense for most popular music, I guess. I have never been able to sit still very long with it, at least straight. Most of it belongs in a car, where some of it actually gets better. But portability has nothing to do with jazz or classical music. You will bump into people and telephone poles listening to it on the move.So what we're conceding here is that pop (rock, r&b, and the rest) are to govern how recorded music is sold. As they always have. It also probably says, without saying it, that jazz and classical music will remain the minor factors, numberswise, they have always been; and make their own way, gearwise. I think that can keep some boutique stuff -- well-made, wonderfully performing, expensive CDP's and turntables -- alive. But the big companies that depend on numbers will have to ride the new wave. We small dealers who can get by selling this gear in small numbers can stay alive while the Tweeters of the world die or move on.
As for jazz, god bless Mosaic, Blue Note, Concorde, ECM and the rest. And as for classical music, god bless Europe. God bless Hyperion, Chandos, Harmonia Mundi, Naive, Channel Classics, Calliope, Bis, Ondine, Dutton, Stradivarious, Opus 111, and the rest. And pray that Decca, Philips, and DG don't give up on us too soon - as Sony seems to have done. And also give thanks to Amazon (US, Canada, UK, and France), Archiv, and MDT who can still get the stuff to us.
No idea what my eleven-year old and the rest of his generation will do. Maybe they'll play music to each other.
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Follow Ups
- Re: It's Over - Bob Neill 15:08:25 04/18/07 (2)
- Re: It's Over - Zanth 10:47:59 04/24/07 (0)
- Exactly and - lancelot 16:18:19 04/18/07 (0)
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