Thanks for the continued clarifications, Jeff, which I appreciate. You are making a lot of sense here.
And (one last time), as far as the pejorative use of the term academic referring to an attitude (etc.), I figured as much in your case; though ...
Thanks for that Antonio... Like I said before, and as I've :cough: recently been reminded of, the academy is part of our ecology and is still in fact, the most important part of the new music scene. It supplies most of our education and most of ou...
"Independent" of what is the obvious question raised. It creates an aura of "what we are against." Most folk here seem to take ti as independent from "academia." Some people here in fact are employed in academia, and aside from the fact that they ...
I'll just cover what I said in the other thread - there doesn't seem to be the academic/independent divide here in Australia that I pick up on in the USA NNMers. Also I don't think people understand well what academics actually do - here I talk ab...