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Is there any music which...?
... can't be defined as belonging to one of these categories:
Tribal/"World" (tho I strongly dislike the term "World Music"), Classical, Jazz (Ragtime counts as Jazz, I think), Popular Music (including Folk, Blues, R&B/Soul, Rock, Hip Hop, etc.), Progressive/Avantgarde, Electronic?
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Also, is "Electronic" truly a category it itself? Is it perhaps just a genre of Popular Music? What defines Electronic music, simply the use of "electronic instruments" (synths, computers etc.) (as distinguished from "electric instruments")? Or is there something inherent in the style which distinguishes itself as a genre/style in itself?
Personally I think you can have "Electronic Classical" or "Electronic Pop" etc., but "Electronic" in itself is not a specific style or genre, it's more of a "secondary qualifier" to the style/genre. But what are your thoughts on this?
Please explain why your choice does not fall under any of these categories. Primus is Avantgarde Rock of some sort.
Although perhaps the term "Avantgarde" is a cop-out. Maybe anything that one might call "Avantgarde" can be defined by other terms, whether it be Classical, Jazz or Pop etc.
I'd say modern Swing is part of Jazz.
Also any "mash-up" of genres like "Folkatronic" would fall fundamentally into one or the other I'd say. Like "Electronic with Folk samples" or "Folk with Electronic instruments" (although that might be a contradiction).
@GIND, yeah I had my doubts about including Folk within Popular Music, and I considered putting it with Tribal instead.
My reasoning for having it where I do is that "Popular Music" seems to be a Western phenomenon, at least as we're defining it, and when I think Folk I think Western.
However I suppose that is actually false. Tribal and Folk are both "musics of the people" I suppose, but it seemed to me that that "Tribal" describes music which, in it's formal attributes, is far different from what we call "Folk", and so couldn't be considered the same.
@Sexy Tuba: True, the term "popular" isn't the best here but it's the term that's come to describe this. But aside from that, there is such a thing called "Pop-song format" which everything I've grouped into Popular music follows (also why I put Folk in there as Folk music seems to be the origin of what we now call the pop-song format/structure (verse/chorus/verse etc.)).
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- GINDLv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Electronic dance music genres share enough similar elements to make electronic a legitimate genre. It's rarely useful for describing specific releases, but useful in categorizing the many subgenres.
Folk music is not pop music, or at least, traditional folk music (perhaps what you call "tribal") is distinct from pop music.
Anyway, the three broad genres are folk music, pop music, and formal/art/"classical" music. Most music fits into one of these, and the rest fits under two or all of the genres at once.
Using avant-garde as a distinct genre is something of a cop out. And not all avant-garde music is classical, jazz, pop, etc. Free-improvisation and noise are both distinct from all of those, I think.
Basically, I believe all music can be categorized, but the genres you listed are not quite the right categories to do so.
- Sexy TubaLv 61 decade ago
As Far as I see it there are the following categories
Traditional (Folk, Classical, World Traditional etc.)
Jazz(Swing, Jazz, Blues, Big Band, Ragtime, Dixieland, Contemporary, Fusion etc.)
Rock (Progressive, Psychedelic, Classic, Grunge etc.)
Rap (Gangsta, Progressive, Trip-Hop etc.)
Country (yeah)
Rhythm and Blues (Funk, R&B, Disco, Soul, etc.)
Electronic (Techno, House, Trance, Ambient, Breakbeat etc.)
Reggae (Reggae, Ska, Dubstep, DanceHall, etc.)
Popular is a stupid grouping because at one point in time Jazz and Classical music were very popular plus that can encompass anything.
- KrassSucksLv 41 decade ago
Hmm, Does Contemporary Swing fall under Jazz?
If not, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Squirrel Nut Zippers etc etc
Yes, I would characterize electronic as another option for a genre, if that makes sense...
Bear is Back D=
Okay, KC wins =]
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