RE: musical genres

[Seth Rogovoy <seth.rogovoy...>]

Excellent point. If everyone here didn't at some level accept the idea
of musical genres, they wouldn't be on this list, "World Music from a
Jewish slant." If that's not a genre, what is? And if we didn't have
genres, we wouldn't exist.

> Given that even those registering the anti-genre argument 
> (and citing as 
> problematic a handful of obvious crossovers and fusions) use 
> terms most of 
> us would associate with genres in their threads.  If the 
> Klezmatics don't 
> play klezmer why do they use a group name that clearly 
> indicates that that 
> is precisely what they do?  If we never speak of genres, what is the 
> alternative?  Without taxonomy conversations about music or 
> anything else 
> would be vastly more complicated and difficult, in addition to which 
> hunters would have no one to stuff their kills.


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