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Morris-ey	popularisation and commercialisation of roots/trad (123* d)	RE: popularisation and commercialisation of roots/trad	18 Nov 11
Good Soldier: how has modern jazz survived?it is not popular or commercial, how has modern art survived it is not popular. your comment is simplistic and a sweeping generalisation. My aphorism was not meant to be taken too literally (always a mistake on a folk music board) so to explain to the harder of understanding: If something has too few practitioners it will die; If it has sufficient practitioners it might survive; If it has sufficient practitioners and is something that sufficent people want to buy it will certainly survive until fashions change. Jazz, like folk, is a niche market where there are enough amateurs to keep it going - some can even make a living from it. Modern art is beyond my understaning but can be hugely commercial.

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