Musical genres are out of date - but this new system explains why you might like both jazz and hip hop

Musical genres are out of date - but this new system explains why you might like both jazz and hip hop

It's hard to pinpoint the exact time in history when genre labels were used to classify music, but the fact is that over the past century, and certainly still today, genre labels dominate. Whether organising your iTunes library, receiving music recommendations from apps like Spotify, or buying CDs at a record store, genre is the first way in which we navigate the music we like.

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