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The Death of the Middle-Class Musician

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300 points pseudolus | 1 comments | 28 Jun 25 22:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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Projectiboga ◴[29 Jun 25 01:30 UTC] No.44409650[source]▶
What has been developing for awhile is that musicians are coming from richer backgrounds on average. They can dally around trying their hand as a working musician and can fail and not be destitute. The age of a working class or lower class musician is waining.
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1. Hard_Space ◴[29 Jun 25 07:23 UTC] No.44410965[source]▶
In the UK, the 'golden age' of the dole gave an otherwise-unsupported fringe of lower-class and middle-class talent time to mature.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/01/writers-recall...