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QC techno reference
StaedlerMars:
Definitions of genres change. It's just something that happens.
KvP:
Do what I do and memorize the ever-useful mnemonic AUAWPPPP - "Always Use "Americana" When in the Presence of Pissy Pants Pedants".
Akima:
--- Quote from: scarred on 21 Apr 2011, 00:02 ---man I do not miss techno
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Are we using "Techno" as a generic term for all electronic music here, or the specific Detroit-y sound? Either way it's never really gone away.
KharBevNor:
If I wanted to be really pedantic I could make a case that recorded music can't be folk music. Folk music implies that, to some degree, the artist draws on a greater storehouse of tunes, lyrics, subjects, chord progressions etc. that have been developed sometimes for centuries before being written down, and passed from performer to performer via the act of performance, and which, ideally, the artist should treat with the curious mixture of irreverence and respect such a weight of human achievment deserves. Note that this definition of folk music extends across all cultures. If someone picks up an acoustic guitar or an accordion or a fiddle or whatever and writes a song from scratch that song really doesn't strictly have anything to do with folk music, no matter if it sounds a bit like folk music or the singer has a folksy twang or whatever.
Saying "definiions of genre change", as if that somehow dismisses the need for discussion and negates any possibility of the original and useful definition of the word in question being argued for and maintained is a classic thought-terminating cliché. You must at least provide a new definition of the word 'folk' that isn't a meaningless, thoughtless marketing term.
KvP:
AUAWPPPP!
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