quoted 10 lines personally, had it been me up on the dais, i would have been nothing if>
>personally, had it been me up on the dais, i would have been nothing if
>not angry and frustrated that most of what i was playing was going more or
>less unnoticed. this continued disrespect to the artists is something that
>has gotten way out of handand no one seems to be raising much of an issue
>about it. is there any reason why the artists themselves fail to
>discourage such behavior? or is it just another example of degrading
>values in our society that has led to similar disrespect in movie
>theaters, libraries, etc. and disrespect that appears to be widely tolerated...
>
I talked with Andrew Peklar after his set and mentioned what I saw as a
lack of respect to him. He wasn't happy about it himself, but shrugged and
said he had gotten used to it - people at shows often don't listen. I
dunno. I just finished a grad program in Interdisciplinary Humanities and
there were two underlying issues which entered into each study...one
concerned the effect of postmodernism on the arts and the other had to do
with various expressions of the arts in the USA, with the question "what
does it mean to be American" as it involves the Humanities. One thing it
seems difficult to deny is a sort of inordinate emphasis on the individual
or "self" here. IMO what you mention above could well be the reason.
Certainly I can't speak for etiquette in other places - nor would I suggest
that this kind of thing only exists here. That it exists, though, is hard
to deny.
jeff
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