On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 22:50 +0200, Götz Waschk wrote:
Dear All, it seems the genre list came from Winamp, they have extended the original genre list and it was copied from winamp everywhere else, like to lame and audacity. The audacity devs have removed it after a complaint like this: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3924 It is part of lame since 2000 at least: http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lame/lame/libmp3lame/id3tag.c?revision=1.1&view=markup According to this, it was renamed in winamp 5.63 to Afro-Punk: http://alicja.dyns.cx/~mats/text/Music/MP3/ID3/Genres.txt Regards, Götz -- AL I:40: Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Thanks Götz. To be fair, we can't assess the motives behind the nomenclature at the time the decision was made so I don't really know for certain if it was intended to be a pejorative. As an example, the prefix of the genre's etymology is rooted in the Latin which simply means black. If it was thought that that had some kind of cultural relevance to the music, it might be more suitable than a vague "afro-punk" since I can't see anyone being comfortable with the hypothetical "central asian-punk", "far east punk", "american punk", "eurasian-punk", etc. But if you can find a compelling reference that the motive was not in good faith, I will remove it ASAP. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com
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