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Feld talks about the mixing of curatorial, promotional , and appropriative
roles (p. #272) of the recording industry. Sometimes he celebrates such
activities, other times he denigrates them. List some of the potential problems
he sees when listeners encounter musical traditions without any sense of
their original contexts, or without any connection between the human beings
who actually produce the sounds. Do you have additional concerns? What solutions
does he offer to counteract the problems he defines? Which options seem
most valuable to you and why?
Must a mass presentation format, by its very nature, result in what Feld
describes as "virtual contact"?