All the business about professionalization-academicization-commercialization-subculturalization-politicization-depoliticization is something else, a side issue that obscures the substantial. To keep such things at arm's length can be liberating for the spirit, but in itself doesn't guarantee the visitation of the Muse. As Montale wrote, in "Stile e tradizione" : "Tradition is continued not by those who want to, but by those who can."