I have a bunch of MP3s and being a bit of a pedant they all have tag information. If I search by genre there a dozens of genres to describe each miniscule subset of rock, electronica, hip hop etc. but when it comes to music from India, Africa or South America it all gets the same genre, ‘World Music’.
You can’t tell me I need 14 different genres with ‘rock’ in them (not including metal and other rock related genres that don’t include the word rock) and yet anywhere outside of Western Europe or North America is just called ‘World Music’. Even Reggae and Soca are called ‘World Music’ in iTunes.
This is lazy but more than that, it is deeply insulting to other forms of music.
Agree?
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You can’t tell me I need 14 different genres with ‘rock’ in them (not including metal and other rock related genres that don’t include the word rock) and yet anywhere outside of Western Europe or North America is just called ‘World Music’. Even Reggae and Soca are called ‘World Music’ in iTunes.
This is lazy but more than that, it is deeply insulting to other forms of music.
Agree?
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Bazza
You seem to have many pendants.
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ReplyDeleteMia Culpa. Just the kinda guy I am.
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