In the arts and entertainment world, there’s a distinction that’s often misunderstood as semantic, when it’s actually driven by law: the difference between a manager and an agent. In film, touring performing arts, theater, publishing, and other realms of creative expression, both agents and managers work to advance their clients’ work. The difference is that […]
Archives for February 2008
Does anyone listen to lyrics?
Thanks to BoingBoing for pointing me to this Lawrence Welk show performance of ”One Toke over the Line” (if you’re out of the loop, ”toke” is slang for smoking Marijuana…I’m guessing Gail and Dale didn’t figure that out). The cultural disconnect recalls the recent Washington Post article on the songs used in presidential campaigns, and […]
More on authenticity
I was pleased to get a comment on my post yesterday from Bill Ivey, former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, and current director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt. I had a great visit to the Curb Center just last week for an intriguing conversation between […]
What’s ”authentic”?
Some interesting threads about ”authenticity” are tracking around the web, many in response to the new Pine & Gilmore book on the subject (haven’t read it yet, but it’s in ”the stack”). Included in the thread are posts by Grant McCracken, then Sam Ford, and then Sam Ford again. At issue is what we all […]