Dear David, If you are so worried about the feeling of "modern(ist) performers" then you must dislike many "genre" names.
Soul - does that imply all other music is soulless? Hard rock - anything under that level of rock just softies...? True metal - all other metal is false metal? Nu Metal - all other "new metal" is in fact "old metal"? Gospel - does that mean that it is the only way to portray a certain religious creed musically ? New Age - does that make everything before it old age music? Romantic - everything else is cold hearted? Chill Out - The only way to relax? Cross-over - all other music is purist? emo - all other music is devoid of emotion indie - does that mean all other artists are unquestioning zombies I think all the users of these terms gain quite a bit of bite by using them. But the one advantage you have is that the concept of HIP is absolutely unknown to 99.999999% of the world in contrast to most of the above terms, so not worth losing sleep about..... All the best Mark On Mar 28, 2010, at 12:59 AM, David Tayler wrote: > I think the thing I dislike the most is the automatic implication of > modern performers as uninformed. > Historical performance has less of a bite in that regard. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
