Denney's Music and Politics Combination Plate

Do politics and music mix?
Ignore politics and note: your little music clubs will disappear as skyrocketing rents, the obvious wake of any "redevelopment" without rent control, take an inevitable toll.* Your low-income artists and the low-income crowd that best appreciates them will have to move somewhere where an income under six figures is still permissible. In other words, you can ignore the politics in music; lots of people do. But it will never ignore you.

* San Francisco in the 50's had a club on every commercial block, sometimes two, and lots of gigs. Talk to some old-timers about the clubs, and you'll get the picture. Life may not have been easy, but it was lively as hell.