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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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