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The catergorisation and genre-isation of the arts
I am guilty of this myself but, inspired by DiS's sister sites as well as constant recourse to genre in pretty much every realm of arts journalism, are we getting to a point where things are categorised to an extent where they lose all meaning? Is art/music/literature whatever being misunderstood, overlooked or limited by the fact that it is consistently forced into very narrow genre categories to please a society that is intent on getting easily consumable, bitesize pieces. Should anything be done about this? What would be a good way forward? Will anyone make a stand?