Are artists slaves to the festival's needs?

guardian.co.uk: "Recent years have seen a massive growth in the use of the phrase 'the culture industry'. Let's imagine for a minute that it isn't just a vacuous bit of labelling on the part of politicians who need a suitably macho, hard-hitting and financially sound-sounding umbrella term for what would otherwise still be 'the arts', but that it really intends to mean the manufacture of culture on an industrial scale. With the demise of virtually all actual industry in this country, the economy obviously needs something new. We need something we can trade in at home and that can be exported abroad."