| Genre boundaries are defo coming down along with a lot of genre prejudice. For under 25's this seems less relevant. When i was a lad there were real perceived boundaries of cool - and if you said you liked prog in the NME it was a a very bad idea :)
Now mass media has fallen by the wayside to an extent this is less important for listeners. Personally i never cared - i just wanted to hear a decent chord progression :) Matt Stevens www.mattstevensguitar.com
On 14 Feb 2011, at 12:17, Gareth Whittock wrote: Coincidentally, I've just finished a "free listening" session with my music students playing favourite tracks - they don't give a damn about genres. I was struck by their borderless appreciation of music.
How heartening!
Peace
G
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:56:37 +0100
> Subject: Re: Why does mainstream seem more like , downstream these days?
> From: perboysen@gmail.com
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Matt Stevens
> <mattstevensguitar@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > New experimental music is happening all over the world right now - kids
> > messing with tech - they don't care about definitions of the Avant Garde.
>
> I'm with Matt on this. "Genres" are obsolete. The funny part is that
> it actually was the explosive growth of genres and sub genres that led
> to today's more or less "genre-less" culture. One huge backlash of
> this development was the fall of the record labels about ten years
> ago; as markets and sub markets for selling music grew just as
> manifold as the genre pletora it became impossible to hire marketing
> staff that could effectively promote releases in a credible way (as in
> "knowing one's shit"). Also, inside each sub genere there soon weren't
> enough potential customers to support the business idea of a record
> label. Great days for DJ's though!
>
> Per
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