The article fails to mention one big factor that affects the devaluation of music and that is the sheer quantity of good music that is being made and released. The irony is that wonderful products like BIAB make it easy for some one like me to record and release 10 albums in the last three years. Impossible a few years ago.

On the point of music in schools, I am not in the know on the statistics of people who are now qualified in music as opposed to a few years ago but I would be very interested in some hard stats because even in the back water that is South Africa I am astounded with the number of really good musicians out there. Performing and writing. It seems to be a simple matter of supply and demand.

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