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| Wednesday, August 24, 2005 |
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Another tale of a longtail whupping 
| | In Music of the long tail, Adriana expands on a News.com report about the creators of Unheard Beethoven, a pair of independent Beethoven enthusiasts (one is himself a composer) who joined on the Net to expose work that professional scholars haven't bothered with for 150 years. It's popular and it's working (read the last to links above for more). Some scholars are miffed, and disparage the effort. Not Adriana: |
| | To me, this shows another crack in the traditional producer-distribution-audience models. It is obvious that scholars and professionals were not the audience. The two Beethoven enthusiasts were first doing what they wanted to enjoy and couldn't find and now they are hoping to reach the mainstream in a way academicians and virtuosos can't. |
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