Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2009-02-15 22:37
Thus spaketh Ben: "Not necessarily - when art and music is part of everyday culture, then their part in our everyday life is astonishingly stable, despite economic problems and all."
That's where the chicken & egg game hits us between the eyes . . . since the urchins are basically all exposed to the art and music of the everyday world through popular music, TV, movies, etc. from birth on up, the vast majority never learns to appreciate classical music, opera, ballet, painting, sculpture, etc. during their early formative years. By the time they hit the teen years most are hopelessly lost.
Then as voting adults, they don't have the interest in pushing their elected leaders to support education in the arts in early childhood, so yet another generation grows up with little interest in the fine arts . . . and so ad infinitum.
Somehow, an adult population with a small interest in the finer arts has to support teaching those arts to those highly absorbtive young minds in order to ultimately create a populace where " . . . art and music is part of everyday culture . . ." That's a big hurdle to overcome when you must begin with an "everyday culture" whose concept of art is overwhelmingly centered around rock 'n' roll, country and western, bluegrass, and other forms of pop music.
We raise the kids in a "symphony/opera/ballet/other fine art = YUCK!" society, so why should any politician care about the arts -----> there ain't no votes there!!
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