hobey echlin writes,
quoted 4 lines Dance music more and more lets us down with tracky albums that bounce> Dance music more and more lets us down with tracky albums that bounce
> between ever more hermetically sealed genres. (Question for house
> producers:
> Is disco the only thing worth sampling in the last 25 years?)
why do so many journalists hate genres so much? i'm really tired of all the carping on the "hermetic genres" that define dance music. in the journalists' world, eclectic = good, and "generic" (in the literal sense) = bad.
i can see several reasons:
1) the fetishization of novelty and innovation that comes with capitalism
2) plain old insecurity - genres imply a set of rules, and a tradition, that the journalist by nature (having to be semi-versed in scores of genres and topics) will probably not know. therefore, rather than learning about the history & intricacies of drum'n'bass, say, or house music, it's easier to slag it as uncreative.
thoughts?
p