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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