Recent studies in both Canada and the United States reveal that key artistic positions continue to be overwhelmingly dominated by men. “If the same data were coming out about cultural diversity on our stages, nobody would ever challenge it. It’s taboo. But as soon as you talk about equity for women, they start saying, ‘You can’t control my artistic choice’.”
Tag: 08.08.09
Want To Save Jazz? There Are Issues To Be Worked Out…
“Even if I could, I wouldn’t want to undo the transformation of jazz into a sophisticated art music. But there’s no sense in pretending that it didn’t happen, or that contemporary jazz is capable of appealing to the same kind of mass audience that thrilled to the big bands of the swing era. And it is precisely because jazz is now widely viewed as a high-culture art form that its makers must start to grapple with the same problems of presentation, marketing and audience development as do symphony orchestras, drama companies and art museums.”