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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: A Guide to Genres: Part 1
Description: Humans have always tried to make sense the world by putting things into neat little piles and filing them away somehow for further reference…it just makes things easier…
If you study biology, you’ll know about kingdoms, phylum’s, classes, orders, families, geneses, and species…libraries organize books with things like the Dewey decimal system and the universal decimal classification….and when you go grocery shopping, there are signs directing you to the right aisle or department…
This applies to music, too…we like to organize music into categories called “genres”…
This...