Sonic Youth Gossip - Overuse/misuse of the word 'Eclectic' to describe music tastes

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Originally Posted by Decayed Rhapsody

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What I loathe more than the 'eclectic' tag is when people treat anything non-Anglo as "world music" and relegate someone like Oum Kalthoum's work into the "exotic music for rock singers" category (as Diamanda Galas likes to say).

Oum fucking pwns. I heart her.

I have a massive problem with the category of 'world music', but it's a fair shorthand so long as everyone knows that you're talking from a context where most people listen to mostly English language rock/ pop (and variants thereof). I've no idea where I'd posit Oum if pushed, except in the box marked 'double-awesome-core'.