popular culture

[joanna bujes]

At 05:59 PM 01/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Who do you think produces the stuff that Sony et al market? They
>still need real artists to write songs and books and movie scripts.
>Of course big capital appropriates the product, and the artists at
>the top of the heap even get a cut of the profit flow, but they can't
>industrialize the process entirely. Case in point: the absolute
>failure of MBAs to rationalize book publishing.

Right, but these "real" artists produce something different when they work 
for Sony. My mother had another version of this problem when she was 
writing stuff in Romania that had to get funding/validation from the 
ideological censors. She wrote to a distinct formula...everyone had to do 
that or else "write for the drawer."

Joanna