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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:12:20 +0000
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- out - you'll not feel the fall-out..." <OLIVOTTO@ITNCISCA.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: piss metal
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- Len writes:
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- >I don't really care what an artist does, i object to gov't funding for stuff
- >that is not art....pure and simple Mapplethorpe's work is not art a bottle of
- >piss is not art......it's not art...........L.W.
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- The only point is that if you take this to the limit then you allow
- a government (or whoever in charge of controlling funds) to decide what is
- art and what is not. Not so easy, neither so right!
- Just to let you know, in Italy there is no funding at all for anything
- else than so-called "classical music". Jazz has been fighting for years to get
- into the public music schools, and no concert of what we love to call rock (in
- its many facets) will ever be supported by the government. The same applies
- for other arts, with due exceptions -- but in general the song doesn't change
- much.
- The basic consequence of this is that an important section of our cul-
- tural life is financially depressed. This is experienced everyday: if somebo-
- dy goes and asks the Town Council to give funds for a rock concert which might
- put together 2,000 young people, well -- he usually faces shut doors. If the
- same person asks for money to play Vivaldi to 100 aficionados, it's silver and
- gold. There are exceptions, I repeat, but this is the usual pattern.
- It's a really DIY over here, and everything is in the hand of men in
- the street who *love* something and try to make it work. But, so far, jazz,
- rock, pop, anything-different-from-classical-music is not considered culture.
- Let's think it over...
-
- Ciao, Marco
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- * Dreams, hopes and promises - fragments out of time *
- * All of these things have been spoken *
- * Still, you don't understand how it feels when I am *
- * Waiting for them to be broken *
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- Marco Olivotto, C.I.S.C.A. - Univ. degli Studi di Trento, POVO (TN) - ITALY
- olivotto@itnvax.cineca.it OLIVOTTO@ITNCISCA
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