Comments on: The ‘genre ghetto’ is economic, not stylistic

By: Publishing, promotion and print-on-demand | Velcro City Tourist Board

Publishing, promotion and print-on-demand | Velcro City Tourist Board — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:48:30 +0000

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By: Ariel

Ariel — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:48:22 +0000

Of course, music has a distinct advantage over fiction, in the sense that it’s less time-consuming. It’s far easier to sample a couple of songs by twenty different artists and get a pretty good impression of which ones are worth pursuing further. But it would obviously take a lot longer to sample twenty different authors, even if you only tried a couple at a time.

So I reckon any musical is probably a string of interlinked sub-genre conurbations with a reasonable efficient public transport system already in place. It’s just that the big music labels’ private taxi-cab fleet keeps erecting road-blocks and blowing up the tracks to try to force you to go private hire…

By: Yatterings » Watching the Stars from the Gutter

Yatterings » Watching the Stars from the Gutter — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:08:04 +0000

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By: gabe

gabe — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:38:41 +0000

So yes, rock music is still a ghetto, as are most of the explicitly non-commercial genres.

I don’t know. I think it’s more of a suburb than a ghetto… and that analogy extends to publishing as well, and is telling in and of itself.