SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: Roots music for dummies
RE: SIGIA-L: Roots music for dummies
From: Phil Glatz (phil_at_glatz.com)
Date: Tue Nov 13 2001 - 12:07:45 EST
At 11:05 AM 11/13/2001 -0500, Chris wrote:
>David Byrne made a convincing argument against the use of the term "world
>music" altogether in an indignant article he wrote for the NYT:
>So, from a purely democratic standpoint, one in
>which all music is equal, regardless of sales and slickness of production,
>this is a musical utopia.
All classification of music by the RIAA and other industry groups is
suspect to musicians and musicologists. For instance, "country and
western" was a merging of two separate Billboard categories in the late
forties. This put the Carter Family, Chet Atkins, and Roy Rogers in the
same camp.
But a taxonomy of music is certainly important. I think it is quite
possible, but one of the problems in the past has been the way the industry
likes to pigeonhole artists into distinct categories.
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