Wagner, for example, insisted that his later large-scale works weren't operas they were "music-dramas" – even though the very first operas, in early 17th-cent. There was certainly a fracturing of classes in earlier times. In the blog post, for example, "thrash" means fast and non-melodic, and "grind" means slow and sludgy. Some terms, such as "street punk," are more excuses for arguing than musically meaningful.
So, also, is the fact that the classifications often don't mean anything. The division into increasingly minute classifications was probably inevitable, given this mode of thought.
Most descriptions of punk, at least, are of the type: sounds like Band X with a soupçon of Band Y and an admixture of driving bass from Band Z. To answer the easy question, no there's never been a time when practitioners and fans of popular music have had the ability that they now have to form networks. PhD in musicology here also an aging punker. Isn't the driving force that most musicians eschew labels? Soft-shoe shuffle, Ragtime, Bebop, Delta Blues, Detroit Blues, Jazz, Jass… I think that perhaps the opportunity to publish one's opinions widely is what leads to the multiplication of labels.Ĭrustcore-Banjolelepunk Crossover is my bag. Perhaps they're just indicating that the party focuses mostly on hardstyle, but that other genres of EDM may be present as well. While "dance" in and of itself isn't really a genre, EDM, or Electronic Dance Music is a commonly-used umbrella term encompassing most varieties of electronic music. I'd say the poster is suggesting that the event is some sort of a dance. Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and culture.
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Update - a couple of commenters point us to, which offers an interactive map with clickable samples, a list of 1246 named genres, and a feature that will tell you the genre associations of a specified "artist". (Though the last one is a bit over-enthusiastic, it seems to me, probably because it's based on some kind of subspace distance metric that causes cascading similarities to bleed into weird assignments, like adding "British Blues" to Buddy Guy's genres…) But some of the penumbra is surely missing - "tragic lounge" isn't there, for example, though I wouldn't know about it if an acquaintance hadn't once described her band's genre with that term.Īnyhow, has there ever been a time in history when the proliferation of named musical styles within one cultural continuum reached anything close to this number? And what are the forces that drive the process? Is it like revolutionary parties and religious cults and hunter-gatherer tribes? Wikipedia, needless to say, has a much more complete List of Modern Popular Music Genres, which currently lists 756 items. This " Music Genres List", which claims to be "The most comprehensive list of genres of music available on the Internet", doesn't have powerviolence, thrashcore, grindcore, crust, hardstyle, much less shoegaze or post-metal. New genre names are being coined all the time, and some coinages thrive to one degree or another, while others more or less die on the vine.
Hardstyle is an electronic dance genre mixing influences from hardtechno, hard house, hard trance, and hardcore.īut is "dance" (or maybe "dance style") another genre? Or does the sign just mean that the event in the park is in some sense a "dance"?Īnyhow, this made me wonder again how many named genres of contemporary music there are?Īs with vocabulary-counting in general, this is the sort of question that is guaranteed not to have a crisp answer. It was clear to me that "hard style" was probably a musical genre, and indeed Wikipedia explains that Powerviolence, is a raw and dissonant subgenre of hardcore punk.The style is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore.Ĭrust punk (often simply crust) is a form of music influenced by anarcho-punk, hardcore punk and extreme metal.Ī couple of weeks ago in Groningen for Methods in Dialectology XV, I happened on a sign with an ambiguous title. Some of you will recognize that these are names of musical genres, well enough established to have Wikipedia entries. In today's Bad Machinery, Shauna abandons powerviolence and decides against crustcore.
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