http://musicmachinery.com/2011/01/07/know-your-genre/ a blog about music technology by Paul Lamere Thu, 09 May 2013 02:20:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://musicmachinery.com/2011/01/07/know-your-genre/#comment-10113 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:09:39 +0000 http://musicmachinery.com/?p=2978#comment-10113 Oh, it seems that the pool of genres is unfortunately fixed. No 21st-Century-Beat-Music at all ;)

]]> http://musicmachinery.com/2011/01/07/know-your-genre/#comment-10112 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:08:28 +0000 http://musicmachinery.com/?p=2978#comment-10112 FWIW…I understand why people need genres to try and find more music they like and to give some structure to all of the music that is out there. But I believe trying to fit things into a genre is ultimately doomed. If genres had some absolute value that could be defined it would be easy. But, for me at least, they are labels and artificial rules that can be made up by anyone, can change greatly over time, and are something that an artist rarely sticks to and may even delight in changing even on the same recording. Genres also are a neat and tidy way to stereotype something so that it has qualities, positive or negative that can be abused and may not ever help in exposing music to listeners. But people need something to do with their time I guess.

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