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. . .Just a followup to my slightly sarcastic argument in favor of classifying music for the purpose of browsing in a record store. . . . . Actually, whatever happened to that category called "C.I.", or "contemporary instrumental" that was supposed to be pushed by the record companies about five years ago? They seemed in words (if not in deeds) to be responding to the kinds of complaints expressed in this thread. . . .that categories all too often are inaccurate or misleading. C.I. was supposed to be an umbrella category for non-jazz instrumental musics, anything from electronic to "chamber jazz" to electronica dance, to ambient dance to trip hop to acid jazz to Cage to Jon Hassell to some ECM to Windham Hill to. . . .you name it (instrumental music that's not jazz per-se.) Perhaps postmodern juxtapositions of music "styles" make categorization difficult, I admit. But Contemporary Instrumental seemed intuitively a good idea. Whatever happened to it? Michael. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Dr. Michael S. Yoder Assistant Professor of Geography, Coordinator of Urban Studies Texas A&M International University 5201 University Blvd. Laredo, TX 78041 Tel. (956) 326-2634; FAX (956) 326-2464 Internet:myoder@tamiu.edu =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-==