Real, live music ought to be on the endangered species list--the music that people listen to comes from an ever decreasing circle of producers and performers, through ever more homogeneous marketing/entertainment pipeline--it isn't really TV or radio--which once offered lots of live music--radio, TV, and broadcast networks used to have their own orchestras, and country/old timey live radio shows used to be everywhere--Woody himself was a radio peformer--

The thing that has killed everything is the vertical entertaiment monopoly--who control what is recorded, what is played, and, to a great extent, what is available--The average listener only knows to buy whatever music they hear, and they media marketing moguls know this and have grabbed up radio and TV to use a promotions for their "product"--Given a choice, most people would listen to, and buy things other than Brittany Spears, so the choices are taken away.

A while back, there was a thread about finding ways to promote folk music--we ended up wandering off on a tangent without solving the problem, but the answer turned out to be, make the film "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?"--when people heard the music, they loved it, and bought it---It seems clear that access is the issue, and whoever controls the access controls what survives and what doesn't--