Do Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, and Rush all sound the same? Of course not. Why should Tubular Bells be any different? Prog rock covers a lot of territory.
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@stuartk Having a system that allows customers or patrons to efficiently locate a thing (dedicated aisles in a grocery store, Dewey Decibel system in a library, etc.) is helpful. “And, as a creative person whose played guitar for 50 years, has a studio art degree in drawing/printmaking and enjoys photography and writing poetry, implying I'm someone who disrespects/devalues the arts or artists is absurd After you said such qualms were “extreme” and “getting undies in a twist,” I went on to further clarify why I took issue with label/genre-mongering. You took it personally (i.e. ‘…as a creative person whose played guitar for 50 years…’). Instead of saying an artist is (blank), what if we…Egads! Heaven forbid!…described the music? You know, with words.
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I already admitted that this is practical... Labels are inevitable...😁 I class my music by names of composers and very large denomination : classical and Jazz and Arabic , Persian And Indian and South America and chinese and others ... I never proposed to trash Dewey... 😊 I only said that labels with too much sub-sub-sub labellings too much details like the 60 possible jazz genre distinctions are less useful than names of musicians for me and in a way restricting passed some threshold ... General classification of jazz by years and era are enough for me ... Once this is said i can understand why some musician can hate labelling ... No poet like to be put in a drawer... |
I agree entirely with simonmoon’s and sturartk’s comments and I see no need to react defensively. simon’s description of Jazz as a genre is pretty darn good. Seems to me that there is a lot of value in being able to accurately describe what it is that defines a genre. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the classification of music by genre or sub genre, even when the lines get blurred and it has to be done in broad(er) terms. Classification does not, in any way, give any one genre ultimate “superiority” nor “inferiority” as an art form if there is respect for the idea that “there are are only two kinds of music, good and bad”. An idea that, interestingly enough, was promulgated by and is most commonly associated with a Jazz artist. Duke Ellington, one of the greatest. |
@jjbeason14 If you are a fan of this recording The Atlantic ran an article on March 6th of this year about it written by James Kaplan.Beautifully written article I,m sure you’ll enjoy it, won’t let me post a link you’ll have to look it up. |
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