On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 6:49 AM, david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Snobbery in action. I think Europe has an advantage over America when it > comes to art. There's a lot more interest in and support for art all over > Europe than there is here. I think part of it is that in America a number of > art forms now appear to be supported solely via government or other grants > doled out by small groups of people who quite gave up caring what anyone > else thinks. They've become their own little "cool in-groups." (See comments > above about teen herds?) I think (based on my experience living in Berlin 18 months ago, and growing up in the UK, but having lived in the US for 21 years) that you have this backwards. Non-commercial art is *vastly* more subsidized by grants in Europe than in the US, and there is a really strong belief that its part of the role of government, or even more broadly, society as a whole, to support "stuff that doesn't necessarily sell". The audiences are small, but committed. In the US, this sort of thing seems to be entirely audience-supported, which is to say not very supported at all. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
