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Music genre



Categorising music, especially into finer genres or sub genres, can be difficult for newly emerging styles or for pieces of music that incorporate features of multiple genres. Attempts to pigeonhole particular musicians in a single genre are sometimes ill-founded as they may produce music in a variety of genres over time or even within a single piece. Some people feel that the categorisation of music into genres is based more on commercial and marketing motives than musical criteria. John Zorn, for example, a musician whose work has covered a wide range of genres, wrote in Arcana: Musicians on Music that genres are tools used to "commodify and commercialise an artist's complex personal vision".

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Aversion to different genres

Many people have great aversion to genres differing widely from that which they prefer. This phenomenon has been used by shop owners to repel teenagers, to drive dictators out of embassies [4], and is a factor with "boom cars" vs. neighborhoods.

See also: Music psychology and Sociomusicology

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References

  1. ^ Green, Douglass M. (1965). Form in Tonal Music. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc, 1. ISBN 0030202868. 
  2. ^ van der Merwe, Peter (1989). Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 3. ISBN 0-19-316121-4. 
  3. ^ Moore, Allen "Categorical Conventions in Music Discourse: Style and Genre" Music & Letters, Vol. 82, No. 3 (Aug., 2001), pp. 432-442
  4. ^ Welcome_to_the_Jungle#"Welcome_to_the_Jungle"_and_Noriega
  • "Genre." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Grove Music Online.
  • Holt, Fabian (2007). Genre in Popular Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 
  • Negus, Keith (1999). Music Genres and Corporate Cultures. New York: Routledge. ISBN 041517399X. 

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