What Classifies a Genre or Sub-Genre?

Anonymous · 2013-11-15T17:10:33-05:00

JMan recently made a thread about the genres we've heard the most albums from. We got a little off-topic when we started talking about whether or not metal was a genre of its own, or just a sub-genre of rock. So, I wanted to ask you guys: What classifies a genre? Are there very specific characteristics? How does a sub-genre get created? Share your thoughts.

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genesisfoxtrot21 wrote:

Yes, this is what I'm referring to. Not labeling genres would get rid of that ignorance.

Thats based on your assumption that genre labels are the source of people 1.not understanding things that are different from what they are used to, and 2.peopl thinking about music in a image based tribal social-clique way.

We are trying to say that both these things precede genres, they are part of the reason genres exist. You have the order mixed up, so your arguments don't work, they make weird not-obvious jumps.

And also genres not existing is actually impossible, inconceivable, I've already said this.

edit: people already have said all this in different ways, I'm being redundant because I started writing this post like 10-15 minutes ago and the thread moved while I was typing.

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RockyRaccoon wrote:

My facial expression when I saw that post. Thanks, Brandon. I was being an idiot.

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