Check out my paper on the ontology of music genres with @emmiemalone.bsky.social and @news4wombats.bsky.social!!!
Brandon Polite
Latest paper on the ontology of genre, coauthored with @politephilosopher.bsky.social and @news4wombats.bsky.social, is now up at the British Journal of Aesthetics! In it, we get into the weeds of Christmas and World music, alien jazz, and Gorgoroth! academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics...
Abstract. Musicians, listeners, and record labels sort music into genres such as jazz, punk, heavy metal, and so on. Metaphysically, what kind of thing is
