On 10 Apr 2006 05:55:19 -0700, "basskisser"
wrote:


Jack Goff wrote:


http://www.cornellsun.com/media/stor...-1337296.shtml

"There's something about the crooner genre that just brings out this
timeless feel, as though nothing has changed. Bublé, however,
proclaims, "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life," and
with the way things are looking for the singer, a successful future
may be on the horizon."

Happy now? There's plenty of others.

One reporter errantly calls it 'crooner genre' and you take that as
gospel? Here's some real stuff on music history:
http://library.music.indiana.edu/mus...es/genres.html

Oh, and here is Yahoos genre listings:
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/M...Complete_List/



Bassy, those were a couple of interesting links you provided. I
noticed a couple of interesting things:

1. Neither list claimed to be a complete list of music genres. In
fact, there were many singing styles notably absent from those lists.

2. If you're still touting those lists as being the final word on
music genres, you should notice that neither one contains "Big Band"
as a genre. So you were wrong when you called Buble "Big Band genre",
since by your own proof that genre doesn't exist.

Besides, there is no authority on what can, and can't be a genre. A
genre is: "A category of artistic composition, as in music or
literature, marked by a distinctive style, form, or content."
Crooning is an artistic style, and therefore is a genre. Hell,
yodeling is a genre.

Finally, maybe you should tell Buble himself that he's "Big Band".
He, on his own web site, describes himself as a crooner. Look at
http://www.michaelbuble.jazzyutopia.com/index2.html
where he bills himself as a "21st Century Crooner". Not a 21st
Century Big Band, huh?


Relax Fred, this is my last post in this thread.