Here in post-election, post-Juan Williams-dismissal America, music blogger Matthew Guerrieri has perhaps best characterized the scene before us:
This is the third election cycle in a row driven by one emotion–throw the bums out–which rather implies to me an electorate driving around, hopelessly lost, but too stubborn to stop and ask for directions.
In a world where political rallies double as performance art, public funding for the arts is once again a hot topic of discussion. At Sticks and Drones, conductor Bill Eddins plays provocator with a post suggesting “a revolutionary idea: kill the NEA.” He kicks up some interesting ideas about the potential impact of removing the public arts funding whipping post from the political playing field, and has inspired some equally interesting reactions from readers.
Elsewhere, government plans to cut arts funding generated a cry of protest of a decidedly different bent.
[via the headmistress over at Notes from the Kelp]
And boy can they play it.