Well sure and at the local level creativity can flourish and often does very well but seems to stumble somewhat as it moves into bigger markets. The "market" in this case are studios, record labels, publishers (anyone who puts up the money to produce a piece of work) who use art as a good to make money and in turn tend to dictate the direction it takes to maximize profits (whats actually sold to the public for example). Has that system in turn hurt the quality of work it produces?
Not really sure myself but I think a good argument could be made one way or the other.
And yes Boston is a fine example of what I'm talking about
