RE: musical genres

[avi finegold <afinegold...>]

well if i asked you to reccommend me some jazz to
listen to, having no background in the genre, and you
gave me On The Corner (along with some nils petter
molvaer and uri caine's Mahler project, all of which
are found in the jazz section of my hmv), i would have
a very skewed idea (if i had an idea at all) of what
jazz is. i think that going by how cds are racked in
stores is too simplistic. OTC belongs in the rock or
soul/funk sections as much as it does int he jazz
ones. i think the point was that what genre a work
falls into is no longer a simplistic question.

avi


--- Seth Rogovoy <seth(dot)rogovoy (at) verizon(dot)net> wrote:
> > cmon seth.........you have to agree that calling
> > beefheart just "rock" and on the corner just
> "jazz"
> > does a huge disservice to the music contained in
> > them???
> 
> In what way does it do it a disservice? We were
> asked to say what genre
> they fall into. Where to find the CDs in a record
> store, for example. 
> 
> We werent' asked anything else -- we weren't asked
> to expound upon the
> music in any detailed fashion. 
> 
> Ask a simplistic question, get a simplistic answer.
> 
> --sr
> 
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