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Re:The Decline of the Working Musician by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:43AM (#42077618)
Pop evolved from music hall and vaudeville, and all of those featured musicians who were very much not "low-paid background music systems."
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Re:The Decline of the Working Musician by otwall on Thursday November 07, 2024 @12:11PM (#42078569)
They very much were; there is a reason why the vaudevillians were all poor immigrants and why much of the modern entertainment industry was established by entrepreneurs/conmen running away to California to escape Thomas Edison.
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Re:The Decline of the Working Musician by schwartzworld on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:42PM (#42089372)
> there is a reason why the vaudevillians were all poor immigrants

Same reason so many pro athletes now are poor immigrants.

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