[FA Worldmusic] categorically labelled

[Imbizo at aol.com]

"I look forward to a year where this topic doesn't come up."  

Anyone want to raise a glass to this proposition ?  I'd like to raise  a 
cellar, quite frankly.
World music ?   A marketing term.  Rock ?  The  same.  Intelligent dance 
music ?  Hilarious, but the same. Pop  ?   Country ? The same, ad nauseum et ad 
infinitum.
 
Mel Puljic
 
 
 


>>  So in the end, if we eliminate labels and categories,
>> how do we  talk about music?
>
> Easy: talk about _music_. Rhythm, harmony,  melody,
> instrumentation,
> arrangement, composition, structure,  timbre,
> functionality, etc.  etc.

Most people don't have  the background/knowledge to talk
about music in these terms.  Many  music writers don't even
use this sort of academic language well, if at  all. (maybe
they don't trust their audience to understand it?)

I  look forward to a year where this topic doesn't come  up.

Labels/categories suck, but it's a huge part of how  people
communicate.  Whether it be the dualistic "music is  either
good or bad", the geographic category of nation,  stylistic
category of genre, or something that doesn't have a
literal  meaning but a reasonably understood meaning like
"world music", we  categorize to  communicate.

-Paul
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