Upon running into a non-musician CalArtian friend before a concert and learning that she is attending in order to hear the work of a musician she has agreed to collaborate with, the following exchange ensued:
SK: So it's an interdisciplinary thing?
FRIEND: No, I'm not asking for funding.
COMMENTS
Paul Goodman
"The Community of Scholars" (1964)
in Compulsory Mis-Education and The Community of Scholars
[239, footnote] "I am told that there has occurred an interesting change in the use of language. It is only this [government-]contracted research that is called "research." What a free scientist does in his laboratory according to his own interest is not considered as "research." It has not yet been named."