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genre - style - category
> > is there a definition for the diference between
> > genre - style - category?"
>
>I looked up genre in the dictionary and in means simply" a style or
>category
>of art or literature"
>so they are to my mind the same!
hm... dictionary...
I am not sure about genre, but to me, style and category are not the same.
Style is rather tradition oriented, its the "cookbook" for a way to play
music.
Categories rather arise from the atempt to organize things.
You can isolate a "pure style", but there is no "pure category".
as a picture: the style is the centre of a box, and the category its walls.
New Age is a category but not a style.
Reggae is a style, but you can make categories of revolutionary,
religious, relaxing... and maybe place some recordings in the
category "ambient" instead of "reggae"
A lot of the category "christian" is actually built on the style
"rock" (yes, with diabolic guitar solos :-)
Live Looping is rather a category than a style to me, but neither
really, totally...
Now, I dont know where to put "genre" in all this...
Maybe chambre music is a genre and they play styles like flamenco, walz...
?
Sorry to bore you again with definitions :-)
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