OLLIE MIKSE:In the book The Trouble with Music, Mat Callahan talks in depth about music and what role in has in society and what it means, or should mean, to people. He makes a powerful statement that, were capitalism to be removed from music, that it would actually be advantageous for it, because all the music that there would be left would be one that is made out of pure enjoyment. What is your perspective on how music should circulate, and do you agree with Mat Callahan’s argument?
PENNY RIMBAUD:Well yeah. When someone tells me, “I’m a professional writer,” for example, then that’s a way of telling me they’re