3 ms·
> country and folk music Folk music has nothing to do with country. Country was invented in the 1800s by a businessman who aimed it at primarily white America
by fao_ 9y ago
> country and folk music
Folk music has nothing to do with country.
Country was invented in the 1800s by a businessman who aimed it at primarily white Americans. Folk music has a rich history dating before the 1200s and before much of written language. Many songs of Irish and Welsh descent date before record, still being played today.
Nevertheless, to answer your question:
1) metatags, parent tags, and the like provide ways to structure tag relationships to encompass and describe what you speak of.
2) There are many networks out there that share user's tags based on file hashes. A system could scrape these networks for existing tags and autotag many items without the user's interaction (beyond initiating the autotagger). Users could also get their hands dirty and ask for only tags relating to parent categories, or something like that.
- marshray 9y agoWe can also blame Nashville for taking the 'Western' out of 'Country & Western'.
- Izkata 9y ago> > country and folk music > Folk music has nothing to do with country. I think the point was that they're both "music"; congrats, now you have a hierarchy again!
- kazinator 9y ago"Folk music" possibly rides on the definition of "folk", which brings in a lot of diversity if interpreted broadly. The word "folk" also denotes recognizeable format in the context of commercial broadcasting and streaming of canned music. It basically refers to a locus roughly centered around someone crooning while strumming chords on an acoustic guitar.
- fao_ 9y ago> The word "folk" also denotes recognizeable format in the context of commercial broadcasting and streaming of canned music. That's a very american-centric view you have there.
- kazinator 9y agoThat isn't what you might call my "view"; I'm just remarking on how it seems that a word happens to be used in a certain culture and context.