[Dixielandjazz] Ever wonder about all of the classifications of music (not just OKOM?)

[Gary Lawrence Murphy]

Back in the 70's I ran a jazz music shop in Winnipeg and I often pondered
this question of genre; I concluded there was no rationale behind it, the
concept exists only in the minds of the marketing departments of the big
labels as part of their Values Attitudes and Life Styles consumer
profiling.  The only rational way to partition collections was by a musical
geneology, placing artists who had played under the direction of other
artists in a chain of direct influence, a strategy that works pretty well
until the mass-distribution era starting about 1970 where we begin to see a
preponderance of new players who haven't really played with anyone, having
learned the craft entirely from records or from the newly minted jazz
college programs, and my whole grand plan fell apart.

So eventually I had to side with Duke: it's all just 'music'

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:46 PM, david richoux <domitype at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is a project going on to show EVERY genre in music, in some sort of
> logical tree-cloud - you can click on any term for a sample or follow (by
> holding your mouse on the word to see >> ) to another page that shows more
> musicians that have been put into the category.
>
> http://www.furia.com/misc/genremaps/engenremap.html
>
> It is not complete, and some choices may be a bit open to questions, but it
> seems like a great project to me!
>
> Dave Richoux
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