Forum Overview :: No Stairway to Heaven :: Hey, Roop, what do you think of the latest tempest in a teapot about jazz?

[quote name="skip"]Jazz, classical, opera, etc. are still really easy targets of the mainstream, even though most of their performances have cheaper tickets than whatever popstar is now trending and being eaten up by your popist critics. I'm biased as I have been to more classical music/opera shows than I have rock or pop concerts but the point is, all the stereotypes are based on old ideas that were used in Nickelodeon commercials and should be discarded when someone hits adulthood, which is is why it's funny to read Deadspin call jazz and classical "eat-your-broccoli art", because the only people I hear bitch about vegetables are kids or fatties. Anyway, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/02/what-s-with-this-surge-in-jazz-bashing.html">The Daily Beast</a> has a full rundown. I don't know enough about jazz to know if, like classical, its elitism and arrogance is highly overstated by mainstream media who have a vested interest in having people pay $200 to see Madonna versus $30 to watch an orchestra. [/quote]