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Re: music economics

2008-08-10 by zoinky420

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, "ezra buchla" <ezra.buchla@...> wrote:
>
>> at the same time, i think in recent years i've started seeing some of
> the fallout of that ubiquity in the form of shorter and shorter
> attention spans, shorter and shorter fad-cycles in "underground"
> music, more derivation, less actual originality.

By the way, that sounds like a total contradiction.  If people have 
shorter attention spans, that should foster change quicker.  If fads 
are cycling faster, that would be because of more originality.  How 
could the same unoriginal stuff keep entertaining people with short 
attention spans?  Short attention spans should make culture evolve more 
quickly.  And short attention spans of consumers would be a good thing 
for creators of entertainment content, since it means that, inspite of 
the tools being democratized, consumers' short attention spans prevent 
them from having the patience to create their own entertainment, thus, 
they must rely on obtaining their entertainment from people who's 
attention spans are long enough to be able to create content.

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