The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #120222 Message #2612504
Posted By: Bill D
16-Apr-09 - 12:34 PM
Thread Name: Does any other music require a committee
Subject: RE: Does any other music require a committee
There are 'official' definitions of 'antique'... and 47 different opinions of its correctness. There are subsub definitions of different forms of Rock music...and serious debates as to their value..etc.
Definitions ARE useful for some purposes, such as advertising a CD or concert, but not when like minded people just sit around & make music.
'Folk' & 'trad' used to mean a narrow range of material, now they are just handy short terms for those who are too lazy to make distinctions. As soon as I saw Dylan being called 'traditional', I knew we had lost.