Re: John Cage recordings and what's in a name...

["Michael S. Yoder" <myoder@tamiu.edu>]

At 05:13 PM 6/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>>I'm opposed to classifying music at all.
>
>Amen!  The best music store I've seen, regarding "classifying" music, was
>one in Austin, TX.  I can't remember the name of it, but they didn't
>classify anything!  I LIKED IT!
>
>Dennis Leas
>-----------------------------
>dennis@mdbs.com
>
Would that be Waterloo Records?  It's a huge place in Austin, and they
don't classify anything (except movie soundtracks, as I recall).  For
browsing, it's a pain in the ass, because you have to sift through all the
hillbilly music, derivative top 40 crap, etc.  For practical purposes like
browsing, one can argue that a certain level of categorization is preferal,
even if it means the usual misclassification. (like calling Kenny G jazz).

Always two sides to every argument. . . .except the exploitative sides of
capitalism (Hah!)
Michael.
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