[PREV - POWER_OF_NAMING] [TOP]
Dec 21, 1999
Rev: Jul 4, 2004
music can be named after
the way it's created (electronic/techno/computer)
when it was created (new wave/classical)
attitudes expressed by it
attitudes of the people who created it.
spiritual functions it serves
the kind of people who create it (Seattle grunge/japanoise/Aboriginal)
the geographical location of the creators
Has a music ever been named
with an arbitrary made up name?
What was jazz?
Jizz? Shit?
Gothic is very interesting.
An analogy to other artforms
(architecture, literature). GOTHIC
Pollock music.
Wright music.
But I can't think of
a genre named after a
person... Perhaps Piazzolla:
a specific form of
Tango with no other name.
psychedelic - another peculiar one.
After a kind of drug?
Or were the drugs and the music
both named after a psychological
phenomena?
IMP_PERVERSE
Some very artificial names have (July 4, 2004)
been put over in recent years:
darkwave. electro-clash.
Darkwave is an odd one:
a relatively commonly
used term that appears
to have no established
meaning.
The Projekt catalog was
called "Darkwave". So that Going from a record label
means it's dreamy stuff with catalog name to a genre
ethereal female vocals? name is an interesting
transition.
It sounds something
like a contraction It makes the idea of
of "Dark New Wave", going from the Transbay
so is it a synonym Calender to Transbay Music
for Gothic Rock? more plausible.
Different conflicting
interpretations co-exist.
As far as I can tell, the term
has been promulgated largely
because it looks cool on night
club flyers.
Electro-clash appears to have
been put over by a single
promoter: someone started doing
a festival focusing on a kind of
poppy rock with electronic
sounds mixed in, and bored music This proves that there
journalists picked up on it are ways for a single
("Trend! Trend! Employment!"). centralized agency to
invent a new nomenclature.
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