ABSTRACT
Ninety percent of subsidy money allocated to music went to classical music, the remaining 10 percent was earmarked for newly composed art music with Dutch copyright, and for live jazz, more in particular "improvised music" made in the Netherlands by an avant-garde scene based in Amsterdam. In 1970 CCC Inc. had been one of just a few Dutch bands on the main stage of Holland Pop Festival in Kralingen, Rotterdam, among the absolute greats of international contemporary pop. When Capital Canal City Folk & Blues Incorporated aka CCC Inc. in 1974 decided to stop touring and explore new professional possibilities, their step marked the beginning of a march against the outmoded national system of subsidizing the arts. The influence of Stichting Popmuziek Nederland/National Pop Institute on the double-edged process of emancipation and cultural rise can hardly be overestimated.
