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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.music
Subject: Re: net.music.* groups
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Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 12:09:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  8 12:09:59 1984
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Aha!  Now we have the ultimate subgrouping.  Put all serious music in
net.music.classical, and jazz, blues, folk, etc. [?????] can go into
net.music.popular, which of course is not being patronizing or elitist...

Of course, classical is a misnomer, so we'll have to change the name to
net.music.serious.  So now all we have left to do is distinguish which
musics belong in which groups:

	Van Halen -- net.music.serious:  They're like artists, man, and
			anybody who gets compared to Steve Howe...

	Leonard Bernstein -- net.music.popular:  Hey, he wrote movie
			soundtracks and scores for musicals, and he
			wrote a rock opera.  He never could conduct anyway...

	Rick Wakeman -- net.music.serious:  All the music he stole from
				was serious...

	Grateful Dead -- net.music.serious:  Anybody who can stand up there
				and play what they play for as long as they
				do have GOT to be serious...

	Ludwig van Beethoven -- net.music.popular:  Everybody knows who he
				is, and what about A Fifth of Beethoven???

Further pigeonholing exercises are left to the reader.

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUBGROUPS FOR NEW TOPICS AND SUBGROUPS BASED
ON TASTE!!!!!!
-- 
Pardon me for breathing...
	Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr