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On 04/05/2003 at 20:47 Ari Davidow wrote: >At 05:44 PM 5/4/2003 -0500, you wrote: >>Of course there are, but one needs to recognize that what goes into each one >>depends on someone's arbitrary opinion. But just for fun, let's play a >>little game. Genre-classify the following five artists: >>Salim Halali >>The Klezmatics >>Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) >>Miles Davis (make sure you include the years1969-1975) >>Leonard Bernstein >> >>See what I mean? > >Some things =are= hard to categorize (which I think is where RAS started, in this particular case). But people do think in categories. I don't think it hurts to try to provide a context in which the reader can hear your review. Sometimes that means eschewing categories because they don't help. Sometimes, the grounding can help. Sometimes it also depends on your audience. > >Perhaps we need to say that mindless categorization, like other foolish consistencies, is the hobgoblin of small minds. No doubt there... ;-) >But we would also need to agree that not all categorization is foolish ;-). Absolutely, it's got its uses. It's only when one tries to squeeze the music itself, or the artist, into a narrow "pigeon coop" when clearly it is far too great and far too big-minded to be confined thus, that categorisation becomes, err... "silly". Richard "Renaissance Man" ---------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Network http://shamash.org A service of Hebrew College, which offers online courses and an online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/ * * FREE JEWISH LEARNING * * Shamash invites you to join MyJewishLearning.com, a comprehensive, objective, authoritative and interactive learning resource in all areas of Judaism. Free membership via http://www.myjewishlearning.com/shamash ---------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------=
