01-10-2011, 10:08
I'm with Evil on this one.
I've never really understood the anti-genre attitude. When I categorise anything in my head, things tend to get set out in some sort of visual image which could be described as a map of the facts or items. All the facts & items have links between them, as appropriate, a bit like the images of neurons you see on TV. This "construction" helps me to navigate my memory. Maybe others don't use this type of thing ?!
Anyway, genres are just a navigational tool. Giving a style of music which is significantly different in nature from another a different name is merely using labels to aid navigation & communication.
I don't know the difference between all the Metal sub-genres, but if something's described as Industrial music, which I like and am interested in, the label is useful to help me discriminate it from say, Death Metal which I can't stand.
Humans use labels everywhere.
I fear I'm not going to persuade any of the anti-genre peeps, so I'll duck out at this point.
Peace, dear fellow members...
I've never really understood the anti-genre attitude. When I categorise anything in my head, things tend to get set out in some sort of visual image which could be described as a map of the facts or items. All the facts & items have links between them, as appropriate, a bit like the images of neurons you see on TV. This "construction" helps me to navigate my memory. Maybe others don't use this type of thing ?!
Anyway, genres are just a navigational tool. Giving a style of music which is significantly different in nature from another a different name is merely using labels to aid navigation & communication.
I don't know the difference between all the Metal sub-genres, but if something's described as Industrial music, which I like and am interested in, the label is useful to help me discriminate it from say, Death Metal which I can't stand.
Humans use labels everywhere.
I fear I'm not going to persuade any of the anti-genre peeps, so I'll duck out at this point.
Peace, dear fellow members...
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"
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