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How creative groups maintain artistic vision under commercial pressure

Our band used to be four friends making music we loved and now we have a manager and booking agents and somehow every conversation about our sound has become a conversation about our market and we can't seem to separate what we want creatively from what other people think will work for us.

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External success apparatus begins to colonize the internal creative decision-making process.

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