Re: An Israelite Odyssey - Review of Koby Israelite's "Dance of

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

>I'm a listener - and nobody has ever "forced" me to "pidgeonhole" music.

That's because you're intelligent and educated. You are not 'Joe Listener'.
(BTW there's no 'd' in pigeonhole althouth there IS an 'i' ;-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "r l reid" <ro (at) panix(dot)com>; "r l reid" <ro (at) panix(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: An Israelite Odyssey - Review of Koby Israelite's "Dance of


> Eliezer Kaplan wrote:
> > Roger Reid yclept:
> > > Why is "genre classification" silly?
> >
> > Because it forces listeners to 'pgeonhole' music based on their
> > expectations.
>
> "Forces"?  Hardly.  Gives a hint as to whether it's your kind of thing,
> maybe.  It's cool if Koby Israelite doesn;t fit any genre.  But genre
> classification is hardly silly.  Means I don't have to dig through
> hip hop to find modern Hungarian classical.
>
> I'm a listener - and nobody has ever "forced" me to "pidgeonhole" music.
> I've got all the free will I need for it.
>
> Not a victim,
> roger
>
>
> -- 
> r l reid ro (at) rreid(dot)net
>
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