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RE: genre - style - category--Christian(?)

First off, let me say that we should call this Live Onstage Looping so
we can proudly refer to our music as LOL--I think we deserve that . . .
Next subject--as Candy and I travel recently (currently in Phoenix,
AZ--car problems--more later if I have to), we have listened to several
Christian radio stations--all styles abound on the same stations!  Sort
of like the 60's . . .
Cheri Keaggy sounded good--no relation evidently to the loop guy--
But it all had great production values, and nice to hear country next to
urban--
IMHO categorization is for the listener, not the performer--
To quote Paul Kantner, "Fuck you, we do what we want."


Gary Lehmann
<snip>

>  > 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 :-)

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