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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Where is the jazz audience? posted by plantsman on March 21, 2011 at 05:34:54:
The jazz audience is in the old folks home. I go to the Vision Festival every year in New York. It is the leading festival for "free jazz" (I hate that label, and wish it could be avoided, but is "creative music" really any better?) in the States. I'm 51, and I'm probably in the lower half of the audience demographic.
Young "hip" audiences have no interest in jazz, unless is the most retro and dare I say the "whitest" that is available. Here in New Orleans, there has been a huge grassroots revival of interest in "traditional" jazz among the hipster set who have settled here post Katrina, yet this audience displays no interest in going to hear the masters of traditional New Orleans music that still play here. There attention is solely with their peers performing mundane versions of commercial tunes from the 20's. It is as if we are now in a parallel universe in which Paul Whiteman really was the "King of Jazz." The key I think is that younger audiences are not searching for challenges from music, whether intellectual, spiritual, physical, or emotional, so this leaves jazz (in all its outward forms–trad, be-bop, fusion, free, post-modern, etc.) out in the cold. And without a younger audience (those with free time if not money) there is no real audience.
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Follow Ups
- RE: Where is the jazz audience? - belyin 11:58:04 03/21/11 (4)
- That isn't entirely reflective of my experience - plantsman 14:10:08 03/21/11 (3)
- RE: That isn't entirely reflective of my experience - GEO 19:39:48 03/21/11 (2)
- What does the audience look like? - plantsman 05:54:27 03/22/11 (1)
- RE: What does the audience look like? - GEO 06:48:30 03/22/11 (0)
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