Public investment in jazz – or the lack of it

I have just completed a paper on “Public investment of jazz – a coherent policy for jazz, changing demographics, live music and coping with the increasing supply of jazz musicians”.

This paper examines:

A level playing field for jazz

The paucity of public funding for jazz

The lack of a coherent policy for jazz in the UK

Changing demographics

The education sector and the supply of jazz musicians and live music

Keep music live

“……………The fundamental problem is there is no policy for the arts in England. Arts funding is now run like a dodgy hedge fund that every three years selects a National Portfolio of arts organisations and then three years later un-bundles them. This rag bag “portfolio” of arts organisations, replete with the slogan “Great Art for Everyone” is tortuously brought into existence without any coherent art form policy. Whatever next?  Anne Summers – “Great Sex for Everyone”, or the Cooperative Funeral Care – “Great Funerals for Everyone”. Even more risible is the fact that they have dumped the notion of specialist art form administrators and lumbered the staff with the title “relationship managers”, a term adopted from the high street banks………………. ” read the paper here:  Public investment of jazz – a coherent policy for jazz, changing demographics, live music and coping with the increasing supply of jazz musicians.

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