The different music industries

I usually don’t use the phrase ”music industry” anymore. This is because it is more and more obvious that the different musical businesses are too far from each other to be colleagues. The first and most obvious gap is between art- and entertainment music. There are lots of people in either of these businesses that regard the ”others” as not even dealing with music in the real sense. Art music are often extremely hard to earn money from, with small audiences and rare opportunities to express their music fr an audience. Entertainment music is easier, but even in this area there are lots of different businesses. I can not compare the terms for a commercial artist, working with a major company, or someone seen in national television’s huge IDOL-shows, with an independent artist in a DIY company. The worlds are different, the revenue is different and the audience is different. Then we have the whole classical music swamp, working as museums with the most talented musicians in the world being told to recite someone else…