On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 19:08 -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
I think the test that should be used is whether or not this term is actually in use. Is there a published album that classifies itself with this label? A music store somewhere with a section dedicated to this Genre? If not, then perhaps it really was a bad joke and it's time to stop copying it.
That's a good start for a test, but I still have a concern: Of all the hundreds of different genres, I'm sure there are probably plenty of ones just as obscure that we could spend all day trying to find an album that self identifies. Examples include "porn groove" (109), "booty bass" (107), "terror" (130), "math rock" (172), etc.. You've also got to love "ethnic" (48) which, personally, I think is far more ridiculous a genre than "negerpunk", given that I'm yet to see anyone characterize Beethoven or any other Belgian or European originating music as "ethnic". I often hear people refer to Ethiopian, Algerian, etc. cuisine as "ethnic" food, yet French fries are apparently not, nor Ireland's McDonalds' brothers Irish, nor English blood sausages. "Classical" is taken unqualified to mean distinctively European, though Chinese people and most of the rest of the world probably were capable of making and enjoying music throughout antiquity. Like many categories, the more you think about them in a philosophical and epistemological sense, the more you realize they turn out to have never made much sense to begin with. In this situation, as long as the genre name's origin was made in good faith, I personally think we should probably just leave "negerpunk" be in EasyTAG. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com
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