Re: Re: [Harp-L] Genre hoping
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- Subject: Re: Re: [Harp-L] Genre hoping
- From: "Bill" <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:05:43 -0000
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I have a devil's advocate joke, that the idea of a musical genre is of most
use to middle aged adolescent boys with borderline OCD so they know how to
organise their music collections. I confess that I even tried doing that
myself for a while when I switched over to having everything as mp3s and
then got frustrated because i found that half of it was impossible to
classify and I could never find anything.
Maybe audiences like genres so they know what to expect and venues and
promoters like it because they know how to market it but should musicians
ever be restricted? Surely what matters first and foremost is the creative
imagination and where that takes someone.
Bill
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