Freelance pianist David J. Hahn has written a nice article over at MusicianWages.com. Here’s an excerpt:
...we’re all concerned about how musicians are going to make a living with all this music flying around for free, and it’s definitely a legitimate concern.
But consider this – “professional musician” wasn’t a career created by the phonograph. The musician industry has been around as long as humans have, but recorded music is, relatively, a very new invention. Mozart never sold a record. Beethoven never released an album. Yet they made careers as musicians.
What if we’re just coming out of a prolonged, 100-year tech bubble for the music industry? What if the easy money of the record-selling days is gone, and we’re back to selling live performance and commissioned compositions just like things were before the bubble?
(Via @EFF.)
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