At 1:05 AM 1/14/97, when tacky people do tacky things wrote:
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quoted 5 lines a good pal and i were pondering the same thing. if techno becomes widely>a good pal and i were pondering the same thing. if techno becomes widely
>accepted in america, we saw two possible outcomes : techno as disco or
>techno as
>jazz.
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quoted 5 lines whew. i apologise for any historical inaccuracies. i'm not a musicologist by>whew. i apologise for any historical inaccuracies. i'm not a musicologist by
>far, but i think the two parallels are certainly possible. i can wait to see
>the nasty responses to this tomorrow morning!
>
>Grant.
Well, FWIW, Techno now has a separate column in Playboy's music pages,
alongside Jazz, R&B, Classical and, yes, Rock. So, at least in the eyes of
that oh-so-progressive rag, Techno is a separate but equal genre, and not a
subset of Rock.
What does this mean? I guess there is a snowball's chance in hell that
Techno will eventually settle down to being a separate genre in the music
industry, just like Jazz, and not a flavor-of-the-month marketing scam
designed to cushion people from the death of Rock.