As for saying "how about just labelling it music", that's a bit like going to the greengrocer's and asking him "Can I have a vegetable, please."

The fact that it is a greengrocers (if there still are such things) has narrowed it down a little - at least having made the decision to shop there, you are unlikely to be supplied with pork chops.

The test of the labels we place on anything - be it music or people - is not the cases where it looks to be clear, but the borderline cases. The less labels and sub-divisions we have - the less borderline cases and problems there will be.

Labelling music on national lines (in stores), may appear to make sense but closer examination will show it to be very problematic. But as music is our only international language (and perhaps our only hope) - this is counter-productive and limiting something that has no limits.

Perhaps in the case of music, there is now only the need for two labels - live music or recorded music?

Or even music that is to your taste or music that is not?