Steve Schwartz wrote: >Many American films and cartoons of the 1930s touch on the culture wars >between colloquial, vernacular musicians and "classical" ones. ...... > >How this antagonistic divide came about is less clear than the fact >that it *has* come about and, as far as the history of music goes, fairly >recently. My theory is that when music started to be recorded it became a product. Once labelled as a product it was at the mercy of salesmen and marketing men and it was a short step to putting it in categories to make purchasing easier. Also I have been reading a biography of Henry Wood the conductor (famous for the The Proms). The concerts show a mixture of classical and popular items at the begining of his career but slowly change to the more usual classical only concerts by the middle of his career. Tim Horwood