I search endlessly for a category for my music; the latest is CHTHONICISM but to me it's still FOLK though to many here it probably isn't even MUSIC (see HERE for the piece in question - freely improvised violin & frame drum, & live electronics xechronously recorded in various locations and assembled / realised in real-time back the studio). I see musical category as more a matter of Aesthetic Intention, or Perception, but each and every type of music is defined by its own TRADITION - i.e. the direct & immediate consequence of what preceded it, even if it proves a dead end in itself, such as many Folk Songs. Genre & Idiom is juice of musical creativity which is, in itself, a pretty persuasive tradition - unbroken these last 35,000 years!

The Jazz Tradition was summed up and pushed on by Sun Ra and Rahsaan Roland Kirk who took it to the outer limits and back home again; Miles Davis likewise and countless others before & since - even as I speak. Duke Ellington said there was only two types of music: Good and Bad. But all music is either Good or Bad to someone, but none of it by horses...