Survey on Musician Income - MusicianWages.com

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September 7, 2011 at 10:29 pm #6846
Joe Stone	<p>Because I "supported [AFM's] campaign to establish reasonable carryon rules on airlines," they asked me to complete this survey. They are trying to get as many musicians and composers as possible to take it, too. The survey is open Sept 6 – Oct 28, 2011.</p> <p><a href="http://futureofmusic.org/ars">Survey</a></p> <p>Note that I have zero involvement with this survey, and that it’s completely anonymous unless you want to enter some drawing at the end. I suspect that when they compile the results, the data will be very interesting to the users of this site. Hopefully David and Cam will be able to get a hold of it and share it. </p>
September 7, 2011 at 10:30 pm #7774
Joe Stone	Argh – why isn’t the URL embed code working? http://futureofmusic.org/ars
September 8, 2011 at 1:32 pm #7775
David J. Hahn	I saw the AFM send out an email about this. They have contacted us as well, but I’ve mostly blown it off. I think this survey is bogus. My general philosophy, which I’ve talked about before, starts with the assumption that the recording industry was an economic bubble precipitated by a distribution chain that was limited by the technology available. Making money by selling recorded music only last from the early 20th century until 2000 – which is only 70 or so years. If you assume the human experience started with homo sapiens 200,000 years ago, then they recording industry represented just 0.03% of our history. It was a tiny, tiny blip in history and a complete anomaly for working musicians. I call it “the bubble era”. Since the end of the bubble era, people have been going crazy trying to figure out how to bring the bubble era back. They tell stories about how great the bubble era was, try to find ways to create a new bubble era – and – give surveys they have questions almost exclusively related to bubble-era economics. If you ask me, this survey is woefully out of touch with the modern musician career. Look at how many bubble-era questions they have. Nearly the whole thing is skewed toward recording industry related questions. I know what they will find. They’ll find that the bubble has burst. Forgive me Joe, I totally don’t mean to be a jerk.
September 9, 2011 at 12:51 pm #7780
Joe Stone	David, which version of the survey did you do?
September 9, 2011 at 2:32 pm #7781
David J. Hahn	I did the shortest one. Did you do one of the longer ones?
September 10, 2011 at 12:00 pm #7784
Joe Stone	No, I did the short one as well. I agree with you 100% about the industry and the desire by many to get the bubble back. However, it never crossed my mind that the survey was slanted in that way. I don’t think you’re being a jerk, either. :-)
September 21, 2011 at 6:05 am #7801
David J. Hahn	Did anyone else take this survey?
September 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm #7803
Cameron Mizell	I took it. It’d be great for everyone else that sees this do it as well…