RE: musical genres

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

We're talking about music made by earthlings, not space aliens.

> It's not generally known but Sun Ra's real name was John Ra, 
> from which the 
> term 'genre' is derived, this despite the fact than so many 
> people objected 
> to calling his music by the familiar terminology 'jazz'.
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:42 AM 5/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >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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