Re: [Harp-L] Genre hoping

[Mike Fugazzi <mikefugazzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent point.  Shades of grey...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyVcHuV2MHQ

To top your devil's advocate post...

Little Walter made a steady living playing pop music on
guitar...probably more consistently than on harp...so would calling
him a "pop" artist over a "blues" artist make more sense?  Is
associating him with blues as a genre limiting his perceived
contributions to music?

In general, labels create limitations where they may not really exist.
 They put things in a box.  Just think of the labels harp players are
given and what that has led to in your own life.



> --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Bill" <bill.eborn@...> wrote:
>
> 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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