On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, John Shipman wrote:

> probably depends who your talking to. "tribal' to one won't be "tribal" to
> another. i find that lots of times the lines between the classifications of
> this and that get blurred. you could definitely use both of these terms to
> describe ho, outline and ruskin. personally i would just like to describe it
> as music, sometimes it seems like categories just get in the way:) 


of course, classifications exist because they give people convenient
and simple ways to communicate ideas to one another (albeit sometimes at
the cost of accuracy).  can you imagine going in to the record store and
asking the clerk, "i'm looking for that kind of sound that goes 'bump,
chicka, bump, chicka. . .'" 

my $.02

kyle

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