Free higher education indirectly funded British music culture by enabling an experimental-popular exchange.

Evidence

What has been lost is the transit between experimental and popular culture which characterised earlier eras. But what the student movement has been trying to prevent is nothing less than the dismantling of the last elements of the infrastructure which made this exchange possible; free higher education, after all, was one of the means by which British music culture was indirectly funded. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1296

Categorization

• SEED: The hidden infrastructure argument — that the student fee protests were also a music-policy fight — is a strong essay angle connecting arts funding debates to education policy.