Other than prog, what other genres do you enjoy?

Terrapin Station wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: The terrible term "world music" I love the term "world music," actually, at least as long as it's understood in the way that libraries understand it.  No other term I've encountered comes close to capturing what "world music" lumps together.

Lately I've been trying to listen to as much 40-50s music/radio as I can.  It makes me feel good when not much else does. 

Saperlipopette! wrote: The terrible term "world music"

I love the term "world music," actually, at least as long as it's understood in the way that libraries understand it.  No other term I've encountered comes close to capturing what "world music" lumps together.  When "world music" is avoided, what tends to happen if you love and want to regularly search for world music is that either (a) you've got to instead start searching for hundreds of very specific genres, like "Tuvan throat singing," "Balinese gamelan music," "sacred harp singing," "Benzele pygymy music" etc., which is obviously a pain in the rear end--not to mention that then you tend to miss stuff that you weren't previously familiar with, or (b) you keep running into a bunch of "pure" pop, metal, jazz etc. from other countries instead, which obviously isn't what you're looking for when you're looking for world music.

The misconceived complaint is that it's purely a "marginalizing" term.  That complaint is misconceived because it ignores that there's world music from every country--like sacred harp singing, prison work songs, Appalachian folk music, Sioux Indian music, etc. from the US, for example.  That's all world music.

The misconception on the other side is that "world music" must then refer to all music.  It doesn't.  It refers to musics with folk roots (in the broader, anthropological sense of "folk") that had and continues to have a strong regional tie, because it's not something that "caught on" and propagated around the world as a type of pop music (again in a broad sense of the term "pop"), and by extension, it also refers to music that blends those regional folk musics with more contemporary pop musics.  The latter is sometimes called "world fusion," although some people--including me--prefer to use "world fusion" for music that's more or less like jazz-fusion with world music influences.

We could use another term like "indigenous musics" or something instead, but the problem is that no particular term is popular enough on that end yet to be useful for those of us who regularly search for albums in the category.


Edited by Terrapin Station - September 05 2016 at 08:03

I like hard-rock/heavy-metal from the end of the 60's to Year 2000. I've got 150 vinyles, 300 CDs and 50 cassettes of that genre.
I also enjoy classic rock, classical music and jazz.

Kajagoogoo seem to fit the bill for me, and not just for Beggs' bass virtuosity .......(and I generally HATE commercial pop music..........)

As a total music geek who wants to know about everything and font the best in any given genre - it would be easier to list the genres I can't seem to enjoy. 

I really like all music, from pure pop (new wave, synthpop) to experimental (jazz, fusion).

Silence.

Jazz & the avant-garde mainly. Classical as well but I've spent very little time exploring it beyond the obvious choices.

RockHound wrote: I like both genres - country and western! Actually, I like classical, jazz, and fusion. Delving too deep into subgenres hurts my head.

That's my favorite line from the Blues Brothers! I'm guessing many prog fans enjoy classical and jazz and I've always felt fusion was like prog with a lot more improvisation.