billy g Wrote:
harry Wrote:
98% of "music" is unlistenable garbage to me. Country music has the same listenable/unlistenable ratio as most genres do
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Umm. Classical has a lower ratio. "Early Music" has a much lower ratio for me. Cool jazz has a much lower ratio. I would say "alt rock", however that's defined, has a lower ratio. African pop music has a much lower ratio. Klezmer has a higher ratio. Showtunes has a higher ratio. British Invasion has a much lower ratio.
I understand the intent of your point, but I think even you would agree that it is inherently incorrect.
Also, the notion of "naming genres", as Sr. Diez Dedos comments above... if it is "labeling" in some essentialist dismissal, then of course it nonsense. But descriptions and categories can lead to deeper critical awareness... and no one would say that Bulgarian Folk Music and Japanese Shikashi is the same, should be understood the same...
They should not be understood the same, but I don't understand how there is an inherent quality to Afro-pop that makes general appreciation of it greater.
