Commercialization denatured folk music even as it created new entertainers

Evidence

Still, one of Reisner’s points seemed valid: Just as what he called “honestly primitive folk music” was being denatured and commercialized, so folk music was the latest “shortcut to becoming an ‘entertainer.’” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 274

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the scene-becomes-market two-part structure the reader is testing; echoes the gentrification-advance-guard thesis. — connects to: A globally-marketed app flattens local music markets into Western playlists — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe:…, 473