Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them?

MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It sounds like you want a clear set of rules as to what defines every possible genre of music, which does not and cannot exist.

Genres are largely subjective and only exist for the purpose of subjective comparison. Anyone can create a new genre by taking some elements common to several pieces of music and labelling that as a genre - there’s no master list or governing body that decides exactly what constitutes ‘art rock’. It just is.

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