Re: [microsound] Death of electronic music

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 as soon as music is recorded it becomes electronic music. anything music
produced by a speaker is electronic music.

Jonathan Hughes wrote:

> > Crying for it:
> > a lot of crap called electronic music (in discos of course) is killing the
> > idea of something helpful to understand our times or future.
>
> I don't think the stuff they're playing in discos is "electronic music" --
> it's disco (or, more likely, house or trance). I suppose it is mainly
> electronic in origin, but so is a lot of rock and even country music these
> days. If you're worried that people are using the term "electronic music"
> as an umbrella term for house, techno, trance, glitch, microsound,
> ambient, etc., there's probably not a whole lot that can be done about it.
> The general public often uses terms that are either 1. not accepted by
> those within the the communities they are describing, or 2. are very
> subjective.
>
> To me, Johnny Cash is definitely country music and Shania Twain is
> definitely absolutely not, but the country music industry seems to think
> otherwise.
>
> Jonathan
>
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