Well, you are lumping basically everything outside the experimental realm and classical into the same broad catagory now, so OK, if you wanna say that, sure we can link things up all over the place. Hell, we could even link jazz to classical for that matter and toss in some african tribal stuff. We could argue that music is music and that type of circular logic is pretty hard to pull apart.

I'd still say you're talking about a host of disperate genres, but I am a fan of music's music and hate getting too tied up in seperating stuff into catagories and don't have time to argue more...maybe tomorrow...

Personally, I see modern music as it has evolved in the US as encompassing three major movements thus far....jazz, rock, and hip hop


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