Apyuxjj.173 net.news.groups utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!zeppo!wheps!eagle!mhuxt!pyuxjj!rlr Tue Apr 27 12:31:05 1982 Re: net.mucords RARE INSTANCES?????? What about jazz-rock? Folk-rock? What about people like Keith Jarrett, Glenn Branca, Philip Glass, etc. who straddle several classifications? Do you then submit to both music.jazz & music.rock (& etc.) in such cases? This only means more duplication. I personally see such strict categorization as detrimental to the acquisition of musical knowledge (isn't that the idea behind all of this?). I also see it as a facet of the "my-kind-of-music-is- better-than-yours-so-I-don't-want-to-hear-about-your-boring-***-music" mentality. When someone responds to my article about "electropop" by giving me info on people like Terry Riley or some other classical/jazz artist I haven't heard much about, that's when I really get something out of using the net. If all I wanted to do was blab to other people about stuff we all already knew about, I might as well join a Rick Springfield fan club or something. Yes, I once thought such sub-classifications would be nice, but despite all the mail I've received with that same point of view, I've come to think that it's counterproductive to have subgroups like net.music.only-from-my-favorite-period-in-history-and-geographic-location -and-of-course-by-my-favorite-composer on the net. What happens when some people in net.music.jazz decide they only like Benny Goodman (net.music.jazz.swing.1930s????) Gimme a break!!! You get to put a title on your articles-----that should scare away/attract people who are repulsed by/interested in your brand of music. (END OF SPEECH) Rich Rosen pyuxjj!rlr ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.