A fair point — but I’m not sure I would attribute the flourishing within Canadian music to content regulation. The growth in quality indie music (I assume you’re referring to bands like Metric more than the Juno dominators like Nickelback) has occurred on both sides of the Canadian/American border. I take no issue with regulation [i:c0935b5c79]per se[/i:c0935b5c79], but I suspect the rise of niche taste is a better explanation…
dunadan
Apr 16 2006
07:39 pm
A fair point — but I’m not sure I would attribute the flourishing within Canadian music to content regulation. The growth in quality indie music (I assume you’re referring to bands like Metric more than the Juno dominators like Nickelback) has occurred on both sides of the Canadian/American border. I take no issue with regulation [i:c0935b5c79]per se[/i:c0935b5c79], but I suspect the rise of niche taste is a better explanation…