@simonmoon This, “No, no, no!” business, this “(Tubular Bells) is firmly in the prog-rock genre, or progressive music genre” business, is all a bit much.
Tubular Bells sounds like Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Terry Riley, etc., stuff typically referred to as “contemporary classical,” “minimalist,” etc.
When we get into the ‘60s and up to today, the whole thing of “avant-garde,” “classical,” and “jazz” gets pretty well intertwined to where I think we can just avoid this “No, no, no!” genre-mongering ideation.
If someone thinks something sounds like jazz, so what?
It’s music.
We can listen to music on it’s own terms without bending over backwards to pigeonhole something with generic, over-simplified label-mongering, “genre”-mongering (i.e. ‘No, no, no! Tubular Bells is firmly in the prog-rock genre, or progressive music genre.”).
How is it constructive to do that? Is it helpful for either the artist or the listener to have someone from the peanut gallery “telling” everyone what a piece of music “is” via a generic label of “genre?”
If you poured your heart, mind, body and soul, blood, sweat and tears into creating something, would you appreciate it being summarily reduced to some generic label?
Or would you rather your creation was taken on it’s own terms for the thing it is?
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