[FA Worldmusic] **JUNK** Re: relativity

[Steve Hochman]

I'm still partial to the 3 Mustaphas 3 categorization I cited in my  
column on this topic:

Local music.



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On Aug 14, 2007, at 3:40 PM, Megan Romer wrote:

> Personally, I'm open to suggestions for a new name for the category  
> (which, as I see it, encompasses traditional and contemporary  
> ethnic folk music, but it's a belt that can be easily loosened or  
> tightened based on the situation), but until then, world music it  
> is!  And yes, as long as brick-and-mortar record stores still exist  
> and there is still a generation of music listeners who prefer to  
> discover music by browsing, there needs to be a category.   
> Sometimes pragmatism has to trump artistic philosophy.
>
> As "recommended if you like" computer algorithms become more and  
> more advanced (they're still pretty mediocre - the one at  
> Amazon.com is okay, the one at Netflix is mediocre - they're  
> obviously still only truly useful if they're human-created - and  
> you share the same tastes as that human), the need for genre  
> labeling in a retail setting will fall away and browsing will only  
> exist in very old-school brick-and-mortar stores (sorry) but  
> there'll still be a need for a decent paradigm for live music  
> marketing, as well as for interacting with others who work in the  
> same music industry sector.  Um, you know... like we're doing.
>
> On 8/14/07, Steve Hochman <shochman at pacbell.net> wrote:
> So then what is NOT "world music"? Which is part of my sense that the
> term, ultimately, is meaningless....
>
>
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> Megan Romer
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